Incoming!: Secrets of a Contract Warrior in Afghanistan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692116463)

Thousands of civilians dodge incoming deadly rockets every day in the Afghanistan War. Not everyone makes it out alive. Thomas Josef talks about the incoming rockets and missiles while diving for cover in bunkers. Is it worth the money? Is it a game of Russian roulette knowing you're here today and could be gone tomorrow? Incoming touches on the incredible lives Josef and others live during his four long years of living in this hellhole. The author reveals the libidinous love affairs but sometimes tumultuous exploration of life as a gay man on a military base. He forges friendships in the boring bureaucracy of supporting the fighting as they band together like prisoners behind razor wire and cut a path of hilarious hijinks to survive. Like Las Vegas, does what happens in Afghanistan stay in Afghanistan? Now, it's all revealed for the first time in INCOMING. NOTE: A portion of the proceeds of this book benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. EXCERPTS from the book: My Routine . . . Kathleen has big round eyes, a few freckles across her nose, a dazzling white smile, and a shapely figure. Naturally, she gets a lot of looks from both the contractors and the soldiers wherever we go. When she stands up in the DFAC, I can see a lot of eyes zoom in on her with jaws dropping. Everyone is enamored with her. I can see it on their faces and in their eyes. I can read their filthy minds. Their sexual desires and fantasies are unleashed with her near them. Kathleen introduces me to a website called I Love Bagram. People share their stories, experiences, rants, and raves on this website. I think it took the place of writing on bathroom walls. You don't see much of that around here. Entry number 236 just might be Kathleen. The post reads, "Yes, I am a female. Yes, I look good. Yes, I have red hair. Yes, the friggin' curtains match the bedspread, and no you can't see for yourself, you stupid mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, trailer-trash, swamp-ass, flea-infested idiot." That's kind of Kathleen's attitude toward most of the men around here because she's hit on and gawked at so much. I've seen these sex-crazed, male chauvinist pigs slobbering when they see a good-looking woman walk down the sidewalk-honking their horns, whistling, or shouting things out the truck window to get their attention. It's like they're from Bumfuck, Georgia, and have never seen a woman before. It can really suck being a beautiful lady on this base . . . The Move . . . The fixtures in the bathroom are breaking. A sink has already separated from the wall. There isn't proper water pressure-when we're lucky enough to have water-and the toilets do not flush adequately. I don't know where these toilets were designed or where they came from, but they don't flush everything down. The porta potties may be a better alternative, but the shit in the porta potties has hit seat level. It won't be long before guys are shitting on the floor. If the water is shut off for a day or more, we take showers using bottled water. This past week we had no water four out of seven days, and the people keep coming-the inevitable surge . . . Sleep Deprived . . . The past three months have been brutal. Bagram is one of the busiest if not the busiest military air base in the world. I swear I have not slept in the past 90 days. I am so fatigued that I feel like a zombie. Air traffic is nonstop and so is the noise when you're sleeping in tents. The night is full of all sorts of bothersome sounds: snoring, coughing, sneezing, farting, talking, and whispering. There are the sounds of squeaky cots, the rubbing and sliding of synthetic bedding, and the sound of guys pissing in bottles because they don't want to get out of bed to use a urinal. The billeting management came out with a policy stating that urinating in bottles is not allowed. I don't think that has stopped any guys from doing it. . .

Author: Thomas Josef
ISBN-10: 069211646X
ISBN-13: 9780692116463
Publisher: Thomas Josef
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2018
Pages: 436
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d