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Everything changed on 9/11. Pantano was on his way to a business meeting when he saw the burning towers. "It was the most horrendous thing I had ever seen," he says. "It broke my heart." Ten firemen from Rescue 1, three of them ex-Marines, died in the towers. That...
Going back to the Marines meant a 75% salary cut, but Pantano loved it. In January 2004, after a year of officer's training, he was assigned as a second lieutenant to Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of Marines--2-2, for short. In mid...
Few of the Marines expected much fighting when they were assigned to Mahmudiyah, just outside Baghdad. Then the insurgency erupted. Newly arrived units took more casualties in a few days than their predecessors had in eight months. Pantano recalls watching a convoy of Marine humvees pass his platoon. "We wave...
On April 15, the Marines in Mahmudiyah achieved a small breakthrough. Two captured rebels pointed the Marines to the location of a group of insurgents and an arms cache. Pantano's platoon set out for the targets, two large compound-style Iraqi houses, just off a highway. As the Marines...
What transpired over the next few seconds is disputed by Pantano's lawyers and the Marines. Pantano's defense counsel says that as the two Iraqis pulled off the seat covers, they started talking quietly to each other. Pantano told them, in his rudimentary Arabic, to shut up. They went...