A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

All stories in this book are based on events that happened between May 2011 and May 2012 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Times, places, details, and names have been altered to protect my fellow soldiers from any adverse actions due to their conduct during our deployment together. I am not trying to glorify our war or make any of us sound like heroes. Not all war stories are flag-waving triumphs of the American soldier, but those stories and the soldiers that lived them are no less a part of our history.