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This is the memoir of Sgt Carnell Smith Jr aka Sgt WarDawg. As a U.S. Marine Infantry Rifleman, the Sgt was called on to serve 3 tours in Iraq in 2003, 2004, & 2005 including the very 1st day of the War in March 2003. This is the story of a kid from Orlando who joined the Marines at 18 years old and went on to turn 19, 20, and 21 in the throes of the Iraq War during its first 3 years. Ending with the Sgt's tales of struggle with PTSD, this a memoir that relates to an entire generation of Warfighters in America.

The WarDawg Trail™ podcast is hosted by Sgt WarDawg® aka Sgt Carnell Smith Jr, USMC and Co-Host Thomas "Tommo" Williams an Australian Army Afghan War Veteran. Sgt WarDawg® is a former U.S. Marine Infantry Rifleman 0311 with 3 tours in the Iraq War, including the very 1st day of the War, in 2003, 2004, and 2005. His unit, the Third Battalion Fourth Marines (3/4 K Co.) was the 1st U.S. Marine Infantry unit to reach Baghdad in March 2003, and were the ones that famously took down Saddam's statue in the middle of the city. The next year the Sgt's unit was sent to Fallujah in 2004, then ...