I put off reading my Afghanistan and Iraq books for a long time for a personal reason, so I finally got around to reading this one. It was a great book filled with personal stories of servicemembers lives and activities during war time. It is hard to imagine going through some of these events, especially if you have not been in similar ones. I can see why the brotherhood/sisterhood is very strong. When you go through everything together, or similar things, you have a connection that a lot of people do not get. I think this is a great book if you are looking for perspective on font lines life.