Blood and Tears - Lonsdale-Nester, Elissa
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On her first combat deployment to Iraq, Elissa Lonsdale-Nester served as a Combat Medic and Paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, based out of Vicenza, Italy. Her unit deployed at the start of the initial invasion in March 2003. This book chronicles her time in Iraq as a young soldier and medic. Based on her journal, it will give readers an inside, most personal, up-close look into the life she had in the desert from 2003-2004. Readers should be prepared, there may be triggers in this book as she speaks in her own words on casualties, death, destruction, and bombings. Elissa is now…mehr

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On her first combat deployment to Iraq, Elissa Lonsdale-Nester served as a Combat Medic and Paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, based out of Vicenza, Italy. Her unit deployed at the start of the initial invasion in March 2003. This book chronicles her time in Iraq as a young soldier and medic. Based on her journal, it will give readers an inside, most personal, up-close look into the life she had in the desert from 2003-2004. Readers should be prepared, there may be triggers in this book as she speaks in her own words on casualties, death, destruction, and bombings. Elissa is now retired and living with her family in South Carolina. She teaches CPR and owns her own business.
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Sergeant First Class Elissa Lonsdale-Nester (Retired) served as a Combat Medic and Paratrooper in the US Army from 1997- 2015. This is the story about her first deployment to Iraq, 2003; The Invasion, where she served as a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade based out of Vicenza, Italy. During her first deployment, she conquered many trials and tribulations in her efforts to remain calm and effective as a medic on the battlefield. This book is based off the journal she kept for the year in Iraq from 2003-2004. Since the original book came out in 2005, Elissa continued her career in the Army as an Airborne Medic, eventually becoming a Drill Sergeant. She deployed to various locations such as Thailand, Hungary, and another combat deployment to Iraq in 2009. She was medically retired from the Army in 2015. She now owns her own business teaching CPR to health care facilities. She lives with her husband and two children in South Carolina.