“Drill Sergeant Dugger, on the other hand, was huge and towered over us. This burly Black man had a small moustache over a stern, hard-set scowl, black-rimmed glasses, and a large, ragged scar that ran down the side of his arm from his elbow to wrist.”

— page 37

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“The black and white striped mattresses looked like they needed to be incinerated, and the pillows looked as tired as I felt.”

— page 40

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“There was another HMMWV, a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, upside down in a sludge-filled ravine. Because the vehicle was hemmed in by the ravine, they couldn’t get out through a door. I crawled down towards the vehicle, opened the turret hatch, and slowly and carefully lowered each soldier out.”

— page 177

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