American Sniper - Boekje Pienter

6
Dealing Death
BACK TO WAR
Toward the end of our workup, we found out that they were standing
up a new unit in Baghdad to do direct action raids on suspected terrorists
and resistance leaders. The unit was being run by the GROM, the
Polish special operations unit. While the Poles would handle most of
the heavy lifting, they needed some supplements—namely, snipers and
navigators. And so, in September 2004, I was pulled from my platoon
and sent to Iraq to help the GROM as a navigator. The rest of the platoon
was due to come overseas the following month; I’d meet them
there.
I felt bad about leaving Taya. She was still healing from the birth.
But at the same time, I felt my duty as a SEAL was more important. I
wanted to get back into action. I wanted to go to war.