Ramadi Strong - When "Big" Sam Al Helli was a college kid in Baghdad, his buddy approached him, "Let's go become interpreters for the Americans." The adventure was born. Sam and Ford worked for Scott Huesing's unit that was clearing insurgents from Ramadi. Coincidentally, Pete also worked in the same area as Sam just a few years later.

In 2018, Sam became a US citizen completing an impossible adventure and a life-long love for the Marines of the 2-4. Their story is captured in Scott's book, Echo In Ramadi