Vivid, intimate storytelling by service members and military-connected civilians that provides the emotional context for our reporting.
“There are a lot of Three Percenters on base, one soldier said.” Another asked “why we weren’t talking about Black Lives Matter or Antifa” in uniform?
“We spend a lot of our time wondering, mostly alone, sometimes aloud,” writes a Marine officer, “if what we’re doing makes any difference, to anyone.”
As a woman, I never knew if a soldier was approaching me to correct a crooked beret or to ask for my number,” writes an Army veteran of Fort Hood.
Marriage counseling alongside soldiers from Special Operations Command was not what a military spouse imagined for her first trip to Europe.
“Reality sank in as we donned our combat gear in the ready room,” writes a former Army infantry officer. “In combat, do you ever really have control?”
“Why Are You Leaving Now?”—a Rookie Afghan Policeman, a Combat Veteran, and a Shared Loss of Naivety
|Corbin Chesley“The look of fear on the faces of these local policemen as we left our position is something I will never forget,” writes an Army veteran of Afghanistan.