We had the Watches. They had the Time

Carol Burke is Professor Emerita in English at UC Irvine, and Visiting Scholar in University of North Carolina’s Program in Peace, War and Defense. She combines her ethnographic skills as a folklorist with her interest in literary journalism. Publications include Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight, a study of military culture; Women’s Visions, a book that explores accounts of the supernatural and the uncanny exchanged by women in prison; The Creative Process (coauthored with Molly Tinsley), a creative writing text; Plain Talk and Back in Those Days, collections of family folklore--the latter coauthored with Martin Light; and Close Quarters, a collection of poems. Articles have appeared in magazines like The Nation and The New Republic as well as scholarly journals and collections. Before joining the faculty at UCI in 2004, Professor Burke taught courses in literary journalism at Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins Universities.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Training for COIN (counterinsurgency).- Chapter 3: What We Leave Behind and What We Take to War.- Chapter 4: Going Downrange.- Chapter 5: Going Way Downrange.- Chapter 6: Band of Brothers and Sisters.- Chapter 7: Women On and Off the FOB.- Chapter 8: Sex on the FOB (forward operating base).- Chapter 9: Under Western Eyes.- Chapter 10: Who tells stories on deployment?.- Chapter 11: The Burning of a Quran.-  Chapter 12: Coming Home.