I came to this book looking for stories about war. As a writer who spent over a decade in the military, I devour books like this, and I am also working on a project of my own. About half-way through reading this, I found myself asking whether the author had ever been in the military. Something about some of these stories seemed to be far too distant and second-hand to be authentic. I google’d and learned that contrary to my initial thought, she had never been in.

It was at this point that I read the book with much more interest. I think Schultz does a remarkable job with capturing the military experience—some of these stories I found to be incredible while others I honestly had a hard time getting through. This is biund to happen in any project, but I must say that there were a few parts of this collection where I felt the writing really did stumble upon the “truth”

For anyone looking for a short easy collection of stories to read, I think this is a book definitely worthy of a read—and personally, I found it much better than Phil Klay’s Redeployment—