Military Fiction 
Iraq imploded in 2006 after the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. The province of Al Anbar, in particular, became a hotbed of attacks on Coalition forces and sectarian violence. The First Marine Expeditionary Force was in charge of defeating the foreign Al Qaeda in Iraq and the local muhajideen. 
I MEF was not just Marines, though. Units from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard as well from Coalition partners such as the UK also took part in the fighting. 
IRAQ MARINES is a compilation of three separate volumes which follow two Marines and a Navy Corpsman as they deploy in Fallujah and Ramadi. Their paths cross, but each story is distinct from the others, each a stand-alone volume. 
BOOK 1: PRISONER OF FALLUJAH 
After two tours in Iraq as a grunt, Cpl Nicholas Xenakis came back for one more tour, this time while to a local reserve battery. The battery was assigned as a provisional MP company with the mission of convoy duty, something Nick figured would not be as exciting as his grunt tours, but at least he was back in the fight. Convoys from Fallujah to Ramadi and the Green Zone, however, gave him his adrenaline rush and a view of the war he hadn’t had before. But when his convoy was hit in Fallujah, Nick faced the most life-threatening and dangerous situation a Marine in Iraq could face, and he would have to face it alone. 
BOOK 2: COMBAT CORPSMAN 
Zachary Cannon joined the Navy to get trained as a radiology tech. But the needs of the Navy take priority, and much to his surprise, he was given orders to the Fleet Marine Force as a corpsman to an infantry battalion deploying to Iraq. 
As part of a rifle squad in Ramadi, Zach joins the Marines on patrol, in assaults, and on security duty, facing the same dangers and hardships. Ramadi is a hotbed of insurgent activity in 2006, and Zach’s medical skills are put to the test as he witnesses death and injuries. Faced with snipers, full insurgent attacks, IEDs, rockets and mortars, and the never-ending heat, he cannot be a simple observer, there to treat his Marines. Navy or not, he quickly realizes that he is expected to be a full member of his squad, a combat corpsman. 
Book 3: SNIPER 
Noah Lindt heard the call of duty after the tragic events of 9/11. Despite a hampering medical condition that kept him on the outskirts of his high school class, he was accepted into the Marines where he found out he had a singular skill. He could outshoot almost anyone, and he eventually is assigned as a sniper for a tour in Ramadi, “the most dangerous city on earth.”  
As a HOG, a “Hunter of Gunmen,” Corporal Lindt has to break through his personal barriers and become not only a marksman, but an NCO of Marines if his team will make it through numerous engagements with an enemy who has put a bounty on all American snipers. 
FICTION: These three books are set in Al Anbar Province and Baghdad during 2006, and the background setting is accurate as far as unit disposition and major events. The characters in the books, however, are fictitious. While much of what happens to them, primarily in the second two books, is based on actual events as observed by or told to the author, a significant amount of literary license was used in writing the stories.