Active Duty
Letters to Home from Iraq

The Longest 18 Months in the Life
of a National Guard Soldier

by SSG Jason Adams

Now Available!

Quotable Quotes:

Every man who has ever marched into battle has asked himself two questions: Will I survive? Followed by: How will I react?

Happiness is a working toilet and a good, quality roll of Charmin.

We must be doing something right if all these people entrust this monumental task to a bunch of National Guardsmen from the Corn Belt. Either that, or we are the only ones dumb enough to do it.

“What are y’all gonna do if you get shot at on the way back?”
—“Duck,” we said.

This compelling book is comprised of a National Guard soldier’s actual E-mail letters to his friends and family. Jason’s uncanny ability to blend the human and spiritual side of war with the action and adventure of real life and death situations made this book nearly impossible to put down. Jason sometimes spiritual, often times humorous, but always realistic accounts of the day in and day out happenings in Iraq bring the reader directly to the front lines.

Whether you are for or against our involvement in Operation Iraqi Freedom, this book will touch you like no other story will.

About the National Guard:

One of the things that makes the National Guard so strong is the fact that as soldiers, we bring with us a vast civilian experience dossier full of skills from all walks of life; carpenter, welder, nurse, computer guru. All of these skills combine to form a sort of “ability melting pot” that makes us a very self sufficient and versatile fighting force.

I think, and I have heard this from more than one person that, Foxtrot Battery, 202nd Air Defense Artillery, from po-dunk Galva, Illinois, is causing many people to rethink any preconceived notions they once had regarding the abilities of the reserve components of our nation’s armed forces.