We Went to War: A Army Combat Chaplain's deployment to Afghanistan with the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798246438961)

We Went to War is my Afghanistan deployment story with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

It's not a political book. It's not a history lesson written from a safe distance. It's the day-to-day truth of what it was like to deploy with an airborne unit and live in a place where danger could show up anytime-on a mission, on the road, or right outside the wire.

We dealt with all kinds of threats. Mortars. Rockets. RPGs. Machine gun fire. Suicide vests. VBIEDs. IEDs. Even green-on-blue. Some attacks were meant for us. Some weren't. Either way, we had to stay ready, because that's what the mission demanded.

This book is about the unit. The soldiers. The grind. The leadership. The humor. The exhaustion. The moments that don't make the news, but make up a deployment. Purple Hearts were handed out like candy, and still the work kept going, because in combat you don't get to pause life until you feel ready again.

If you want a straight war memoir that doesn't sugarcoat anything-and doesn't try to turn combat into a therapy session-We Went to War is that story.