They Called Us ‘Lucky’

Just published: They Called Us “Lucky”: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War’s Hardest Hit Unit by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Jim DeFelice.

Roll Call: “Ruben Gallego counts 11 times he got lucky in Iraq, 11 times during his deployment in Iraq’s Anbar province that he barely escaped death. In his new memoir with American Sniper co-author Jim DeFelice, he credits luck — not skill, not training, not God — for surviving.”

Writes Gallego: “I’ve had my run of luck in real life and exhausted it. I’ve lived my eleven lives and will try my best to make my twelfth a good and happy one.”