Colonel harry tunnell biography

Following is an excerpt from Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, by Rajiv Candrasekaran, out this week from Knopf.

As top Army commanders cast about for spare troops to go to Kandahar in 2009, they settled upon a brigade that had never deployed to a war zone and had spent the previous year preparing for a tour in Iraq.

The unit’s commander, Col. Harry Tunnell, got the message about his new mission while he and his troops were conducting their last major exercise before shipping off to Iraq.

Tunnell had been gravely wounded in Iraq, where he led a battalion of paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

In October 2003, his convoy was ambushed by insurgents near the city of Kirkuk.

Harry D. Tunnell.

He was among the very few African-American infantry battalion commanders, and his aggressiveness on the battlefield had led senior officers to.

Harry Tunnell is a retired US Army Colonel and serves on the Board of Directors for The History Center.

That was most apparent in the case of Harry Tunnell, one of the military's few African-American colonels.

Plaintiff Harry Tunnell ("Tunnell"), a U.S. military historian and retired U.S. Army Colonel, filed a four-count complaint against Defendant.

He was shot through the leg when he stepped out of his Humvee. Although he eventually regained the ability to walk, running long distances was out of the question. That would have been a career ender for most officers, but the Army didn’t want to lose