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So I completely finished Joker One.  It was cool to see how the unit grew and developed throughout their time in Iraq.  One of the best parts was when Lieutenant Campbell was asking him men how they felt about leaving and they all gave pretty much the same response: "I'm excited to go home and see my family but I hate to leave when we're not done yet."  They're afraid that the unit that replaces them will come in and screw up everything they've been trying to accomplish.  The unit leave with less men than it came with, a sad fact of war, but the men that are still there have become a family of sorts that can only be made through the hell that is war.  The book goes on to tell a little about how hard it was for them to adjust back to civilian life.  Lieutenant Campbell talks about how it was hard to walk down a crowded street, how every time a door slammed or car exhaust shot off he flinched.  War changes people and to change back and explain it isn't an easy thing to do, sometimes it's impossible.  Lieutenant Campbell wrote Joker One as a tribute to his men and what they did over there and I think he did a great job with it.  It's give a small taste of what happened over there and what the men had to deal with.  So until the beginning.......