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No One Left Behind The Lt Comdr Michael Scott Speicher Story Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award Winner ForeWord Magazines Audiobook of the Year Winner Amy Waters Yarsinske a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prizenominated author breaks the incredible true story of Lt Comdr Michael Scott Speicher the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead On January 16 1991 Speicher participated in the initial air strike of the Persian Gulf War Moments after an attack by an Iraqi MIG25 Speichers plane vanished over the Baghdad desert The next day Secretary of State Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell told the American public that Speicher was the first casualty of the Gulf War He was listed as KIA/BNR Tracking this explosive story for the past eight years Yarsinske interviewed top government and military officials diplomats pilots informers and Iraqi defectors to write a stunning true account of the denials and coverups that obscured an essential fact Speicher actually survived No Room For Error The Covert Operations of Americas Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan When the US Air Force decided to create an elite special tactics team in the late 1970s to work with specialoperations forces John T Carney was the man they turned to Since then Carney and the US Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous dictators They have suffered eighteen times the casualty rate of Americas conventional forces But they have gotten the job done Now for the first time Colonel Carney lifts the veil of secrecy and reveals what really goes on inside the specialoperations forces that are at the forefront of contemporary warfare