In Final Engagement, listeners join then-Lieutenant Izant and the last team of Marine Corps combat advisors at Combat Outpost Taghaz in southern Helmand Province during Operation Enduring Freedom’s most crucial and challenging campaign to sustain the hard-won victories of the infantry units. It was 2012, and with base closure and troop withdrawal timelines foolhardily fixed by America’s top brass, the Marines had only six months to prepare the Afghan Border Police to stand on their own. But before Border Advisor Team 1 completely laid down arms, there would be one last deadly battle with a devastating aftermath.