Been to combat or not. Unless you belong to an LAI unit, I'd say this book is very insightful. This gives you a great inside perspective of the inner workings of LAI units. One that I for one did not previously have. I enjoyed reading this book and getting to understand another piece of the big puzzle. It almost seems that not a whole lot in the Marine Corps has changed since the Kuwait liberation. In 2003 my Jarheads and I went through some of the same problems, emotions, and obsticles from our 2 months of training in Kuwait to breaching the Iraqi border and the dark side to Baghdad.