'Dog Company' - A True Story of Heroism and Heartbreak

The Army does not want you to hear this story.

It does not want to advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting American soldiers at risk. It does not want to reveal the new lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U.S. soldiers and Marines while setting free spies who kill Americans.

This very system ambushed Captain Roger Hill and his men.

Hill, a West Point grad and decorated combat veteran, was a rising young officer who had always followed the letter of the military law. In 2007, Hill got his dream job: infantry commander in the storied 101st Airborne. His new unit, Dog Company, 1-506th, had just returned stateside from the hell of Ramadi. The men were brilliant in combat but unpolished at home, where paperwork and inspections filled their days.

With tough love, Hill and his First Sergeant, an old-school former drill instructor named Tommy Scott, turned the company into the top performers in the battalion.

Hill and Scott then led Dog Company into combat in Afghanistan, where a third of their men became battlefield casualties after just six months. Meanwhile, Hill found himself at war with his own battalion commander, a charismatic but difficult man who threatened to relieve Hill at every turn. After two of his men died on a routine patrol, Hill and a counterintelligence team busted a dozen enemy infiltrators on their base in the violent province of Wardak. Abandoned by his high command, Hill suddenly faced an excruciating choice: follow Army rules the way he always had, or damn the rules to his own destruction and protect the men he’d grown to love.

"A powerful story of brotherhood and heroism – both on and off the battlefield."

Lieutenant General William G. Boykin

"Captain Hill faced an impossible choice."

Anderson Cooper

"'Dog Company' makes Benghazi look like a walk in the park."

Glenn Beck

"'Dog Company' is a clarion call to our nation’s military leaders and federal bureaucrats..."

Sean Hannity

"A war's impossible mission."

Washington Post

Meet Some of the Heroes of Dog Company

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Roger Hill

Dog Company Commander

Jason Dudley

1st Section Leader, 1st Platoon

Timothy "Mo" Moriarty

4th Platoon Sergeant

Andrew Doyle

Sergeant / M2 Gunner / Team Leader

Dog Company Sergeant Saves Dozens from Taliban Suicide Bomber Threat

A Dog Company convoy was ambushed by Taliban suicide bombers in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Learn how one hero charged through enemy fire to eliminate the immediate threat—saving dozens, potentially hundreds of lives.

In the firsthand video account linked above, Sergeant First Class (Ret.) Timothy “Mo” Moriarity and Captain Roger Hill recount that ambush and the follow-on operations that led to the destruction of a car bomb-making factory, preventing future attacks and potentially saving hundreds—if not thousands—more lives.