20-Year Letter: An Afghanistan Chronicle

A few short months removed from the events of 9/11 LT Warner is a young reserve officer with a burning desire to serve. Presented with the opportunity to do so in the new Global War on Terror he jumps into his new assignment full blast oozing with patriotism a lot of cockiness and not much of a plan. But soon enough he finds that his new normal will be clouded with uncertainty. New soldiers new leadership and a new geographic location are just the tip of the iceberg. As the rear cargo door of the plane lowers to reveal a pitch-black Afghanistan night the young leader encounters his first real challenge: simply leading the team off the airplane-over an airfield riddled with landmines. From there 20-Year Letter follows LT Warner throughout the entire undertaking chronicling the bad the terrifying the stressful and even a little bit of the good. His tale is a comprehensive perspective of everything that isnt glamorous about war.