I have had so many Iraqi and Afghans around me with loaded firearms, it’s impossible to count the ways I could have been killed. We were leaving in 2011 when an Afghan walked right past us with a firearm and went on to go and kill another US service member just past us.

Had a rocket land right over my tent in Bagram. I was leaving the next day and had a tent in the transient section. Super close. They are close when you can smell the fuel.

There are a lot of easy ways to die in Iraq and AFG.


"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.