Ranger Combs
Author
Bouna Books
The Black Chinook is an old Ranger based metaphor
representing the image of the black Specter of Death coming
to remove a fallen Ranger from the battlefield.  The courage
to serve in the special operations community comes at great
risk.  During my service in the 75th Ranger Regiment many
comrades fell in training and in combat.  This telling
celebrates the sacrifice of the fallen before they were taken by
the Black Chinook.  

See the Black Chinook page
for more information.
Thick Luck is an adventure laced account of fourteen
expeditions into Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam in search of
POWs and MIAs still missing from the Vietnam War. This
telling provides insight into the U.S. Governments quest to
account for our missing through Joint Task Force Full
Accounting (JTF-FA), Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
(JPAC), and Central Identification Laboratory - Hawaii
(CILHI).

See the Thick Luck page
for more information.
Future Releases

Even after publishing Thick Luck and Black Chinook I have much material
remaining that I am trying to determine how to package and make it
available.  I am yet to include my service and experiences from two years in
Afghanistan.  Although the timeliness of those first-hand accounts would
likely be very interesting I am more concerned it could have a negative
impact operationally, strategically, and politically.
Cold morning on the tarmac in Afghanistan.
Black Chinook Reader Feedback:

Dear Maj. Combs - my son graduated RIP on 28 July 2006 and currently serves with the 3/75 at Ft. Benning, GA - I want to express
my gratitude and my appreciation of your book that I recently purchased for the sole purpose of understanding what my son does -
your book offers an insight and an appreciation of the Ranger regiments and the Ranger training like nothing else that I have read - I
appreciate your service to our country and to Ranger families everywhere.

Thank you and God bless you and your family -

(Name Withheld)
Thick Luck Reader Feedback:

I want to say a heartfelt thank you for writing this book.  I am reading it for the second time because I don't want to miss anything.  
You took me on a journey that has answered so many questions concerning the JFA's.  As a 100% disabled veteran and sister of a
marine still missing in Vietnam I have been involved with my brother's case for 38 years.  Your book opened my eyes and heart to
what JPAC personnel go through for our missing and unaccounted for. I am so grateful for you and all you have done for the family
members.  Now I have a much better insight into what your personal experiences were and the sacrifices you and all the others make
for us.  I am so proud of your wife and family members for being there for you all the times you had to leave them while helping all of
us find some peace.  I pray for all of you every day and appreciate all you went through.  My brother has always been my hero and
now you are too.  Thank you for writing this book.  I can't remember if I ever met you at any of the meetings.  Bless you for all you
have done for your country and all of us.  Thank you from a grateful sister of a marine.

(Name Withheld)
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UPDATE
(3 June 2009)

Not alot going on -- just getting ready to take some
leave and head to New Zealand. Three weeks of good
beer, food, and enjoying some cold weather!  Also plan
to go fishing and see an All Black versus France rugby
match. Yee Ha!!!
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MAJ (Ret) David Combs
Welcome to my site.
This site is dedicated to the superior quality of
military professionals I have had the honor to serve
with during my military career and now wherever the
worlds conflicts take me.

I am a true-blood Army Ranger who participated in
the Invasion of Panama and Operations in Haiti and
Afghanistan. Also the Team Leader for POW/MIA
Investigations in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia. Currently I am in Iraq - continuing to
serve.

For more about me - click on the Author toggle above.
To see more about my books look below on this page
for descriptions, testimonials, and reviews. Click on
the pages on the toggles above to surf my site.

Enjoy!
My books Black Chinook and Thick Luck are
sequential and recount distinctly different periods of
my military career.  I separated them so readers with a
specific interest in either special operations or
POW/MIA operations could focus on their area of
interest.  These books are non-fiction and are an
accurate reflection of my experiences and a peek into a
world which few would ever have the chance or
attributes to endure.
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