Greetings From Afghanistan Send More Ammo

Raw direct and powerful...This work is vitally important.Ken Stern former CEO of National Public Radio As a captain in the Army National Guard Benjamin Tupper spent a year in Afghanistan. Separated from most of his unit Ben along with his partner Corporal Radoslaw Ski Polanski served in an Embedded Training Team teaching training and leading into combat the green Afghan troops. But what they experienced went well beyond the assigned mission and the war proved to be a mix of drudgery absurdity and ever-present dangers. Writing and recording from a remote outpost Tupper began to share his stories with Americans back home. His boots-on-the-ground dispatches were broadcast on NPRs Morning Edition and published on Slate.coms military blog The Sandbox. In Greetings from Afghanistan: Send More Ammo Benjamin Tuppers chronicling of life under fire pulls the reader into the realities of war with poignancy humor and vivid reality offering a unique and compelling firsthand view of the Afghan people their culture and a battle for survival that began long before the Americans arrived.