This is the inside account of the secret battle US Marines have been fighting against ISIS

Maj. David Palka had seen combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, but roughly 90 of the Marines under his command, tasked with setting up a remote fire base in northern Iraq in 2016, had only heard the stories. Their trial by fire in March 2016 came just hours after they landed on Army CH47 helicopters under cover of darkness in Makhmur, Iraq. Getting off the helicopters at around 2 a. m., the Marines were in what was essentially open farmland with a large protective berm of dirt around their small perimeter. B