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Unto The Breach—ARC
John Ringo

Advance Reader Copy
Unproofed

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright ©2006 by John Ringo

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
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ISBN-10: 1-4165-0942-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-0942-4

First printing, December 2006

Cover Art by Kurt Miller

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
TK

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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DEDICATION:
For the ladies of the Chattanooga Hooters, for keeping me supplied with gallons of sweet tea during the production of this manuscript.

And
As always:
For Captain Tamara Long, USAF
Born: May 12, 1979
Died: 23 March 2003, Afghanistan
You fly with the angels now.

Acknowledgements:
There were a bunch of people I had to get research help from on this one. As usual, Ryan Miller and Mike Massa contributed to technical operational help as well as HALO training details. As founding members of RingTAB (the Ringo Tech Advisory Board), they have put up with much.
I'd like to thank Christopher Austin, former member of the Army High Altitude Rescue squad for really professional input on the mountaineering portion. My experience in mountaineering is decades past and techniques and equipment have, ahem, changed considerably. It turns out serious mountaineers hardly ever wear leather boots and wool sweaters anymore...
Retired Master Sergeant Sean Fleenor contributed helpful smacks to the head over weapons use while failing to convince me not to issue the Keldara beer.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of On Combat and On Killing, sent me an increbibly detailed proof read of an early version of this manuscript. Among about a billion other things, he pointed out that Ranger School was longer than I'd remembered. In addition, both of his books were seminal to several aspects of this novel. On Combat, especially, is highly recommended to anyone who is in the business of regularly or occasionally bring violence upon others.