From the Archive:

Special Forces Combat Outpost Pirelli

ODA 072 in Iraq, pre-mission.

August 15 will mark the anniversary of the day in 2007 that Green Beret Robert Pirelli was killed in action in a firefight in Iraq. Alex Quade had allowed us to publish this story in the March 2018 Sentinel — it had been previously published in Soldier of Fortune (SOF) magazine in December 2013 as “Special Forces at War: A Deadly Firefight in Iraq.” On April 7, 2025, SOF added this story to their “Best of SOF.” Click this link to read it there.