Enlist/commission -- Mission -- Every other day -- In country -- The best job I ever had -- Explosion -- Low points -- Close call -- Combat -- Comrades -- Chain of command -- Did you kill anyone -- Enemies -- Homecoming -- Loss -- Nostalgia -- Struggling -- Thank you for your service -- War stories -- "Why are we so out of synch with the civilian population that we, in theory, serve?"
Summary
"After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by Millennials from the perspective of the combatants. Told by veterans, After Combat narrates what Tim O'Brien calls a "true war story:" one without obvious purpose or moral imputation, independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention"-- Provided by publisher