"I remember working with the sergeant major that day. I had an M4 with all sorts of high-tech shit hanging off its rai…"

"The details vary from war to war, but no matter the epoch, the camaraderie remains. It's a closeness no civilian will…"

"A block away, machine guns echo through the night. AK-47s bark. M4s beat a response. The firefight grows."

"I move along the roof to look over toward the northwest. A solitary figure stands in the street. He's cloaked in shad…"

"Close behind Cantrell comes Staff Sergeant Jim, driving that glorious Abrams. First Platoon has no doubt benefited fr…"

"The area around us suddenly erupts with grenades and machine-gun fire. Those shells landed near some Marines, who hav…"

"We're fine operating in the dark; we all have night-vision goggles. But the Marines issue them only to their leadersh…"

"Honor. What an overused word. It's an abstraction. Who can define it? All year in Iraq, I've stood with my men. If th…"

"If I don't go in, they'll have won. How many times have we heard that American soldiers rely on firepower and technol…"

"The gunman on the roof was a teenaged boy, maybe sixteen years old. I could see him scanning for targets, his back to…"