Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I My First Life 7
2003 15
Pinpoint Orders 23
Duty Stations 30
Jumping into Thailand 37
Get Real, We're in Iraq 41
Objective: College 46
Travis 50
Next Stop, Afghanistan 58
Part II Afghanistan 65
"Once Upon a Time, Afghans and Americans Were Fighting…" 78
The Hand on the Shoulder 84
To Payenzai 90
Day One in the Dorito 92
Lanes of Baby Powder 101
First Night 115
The Second Day 119
Manufactured Crime 130
Wheels of Justice 134
Back to Bragg 141
Part III The System 149
Court-Martial Bandwagon 152
"Guilty" 167
(Leavenworth) Prisoner Number 93197 171
Game of Sections 177
An Unlikely Voice from the Outside 183
The Flag on the Door 189
Dispatches from the Legal Arena 193
Runnin' Things 208
Benevolent Dictator 216
Part IV Inmates and Presidents 227
Media Coverage 234
Pardons and Rumors of Pardons 240
Coming Out via STARZ 241
Conversation with the President 245
After the Hurricane 256
Unpacking an Interrupted Life 260
Political Voice 263
New Mission 265
Epilogue 271
Acknowledgments 275