Teresa Fazio was a Marine Corps communications officer for four years, deploying once to Iraq. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, and the Nation as well as in the anthologies Retire the Colors: Veterans and Civilians on Iraq and Afghanistan; The Road Ahead: Fiction from the Forever War; and It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan. Fazio holds a BS in physics from MIT, a PhD in materials science from Columbia University, and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Prologue
1. Packing for War
2. Convoy
3. Groundhog Day
4. Hometown Throwdown
5. Training
6. Night Watch
7. Intrigue
8. Past and Future
9. Beatings Will Continue until Morale Improves
10. Everything Goes to Shit
11. Laying Cable
12. Light My Fire
13. American Girl
14. Falling
15. Semper Fidelis?
16. Worst Christmas Ever
17. Wintry Mix
18. Good-bye?
19. Paddling like a Duck
20. Gone to Carolina
21. A Little Trouble in the Big Apple
22. Get By with a Little Help
23. Crash
24. No One Left Behind
25. Reveille
Epilogue
Source Acknowledgments
