Love My Rifle More Than You: Young And Female In The U. S. Army

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In 2000, Kayla Williams was twenty-three, jobless, single and tempted by the idea of enlisting in the US Army in order to take stock of her life and start again. For five years - including her deployment to Iraq - she was one of the women who make up 15% of the US Military, and she had to navigate both extreme physical danger and emotional minefields.From Basic Training to Baghdad, from Mosul to a remote mountainous outpost on the Syrian border, this raw and honest memoir exorcises the demons of Williams's deployment, during which she witnessed death up close, soldiers crossing the line in the handling of prisoners and widespread disregard for human life and foreign cultures. ISBN:9780297848745