Also check out Larry Bond's Vortex (for a war in South Africa) and Red Phoenix (war in Korea). They're pretty good overall, although more on the Red Storm Rising model (not surprising since Bond co-authored Red Storm Rising) in that they follow a multitude of characters throughout the world.
A light-infantry version of Team Yankee is Ed Ruggero's Thirty Eight North Yankee - following a single infantry company commander through a deployment and war in Korea.
In a way, Team Yankee and Thirty Eight North Yankee are late-Cold War tributes to probably the greatest company-level history of combat in WWII - Charles MacDonald's Company Commander. It's really timeless material, that fits just as well in a modern context...
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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