After CombatApproximately 2. 5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U. S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat accounts from some of these war veterans. In modern warfare no deployment meets the expectations laid down by stories of Appomattox, Ypres, Iwo Jima, or Tet. Stuck behind a desk or the wheel of a truck, many of todays veterans feel they havent even been to