The Last Day in Sangin

In 2010 most of my closest friends in 35 Rob Kelly, Camryn West, Will Donnelly and Gunnery Sergeant Carlisle had been killed or wounded. The loss left me feeling dead inside I was just waiting for my body to catch up we'd arrived in Sangin in October 2010 and settled into a life of brutal sameness. "I felt increasingly ground under the wheels of war so this is the burden of command that you're talking about"