Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: A Few Short Notes from Yesterday -- Prologue -- 1. First Breath -- 2. Bonding: Rite of Passage -- 3. Virginity Patrol: Move Out and Draw Fire -- 4. The Wide End of the Funnel -- 5. Kindergarten -- 6. He Was Just Like Me -- 7. Ghost Patrol -- 8. A New Normal -- 9. Learning to Be Violent -- 10. "We have to know we're right" -- 11. Just Cops on the Beat -- 12. All's Well If You Can See Past the Trees -- 13. Simple Little Spaces for Reflection -- 14. Things We Should Have Said -- 15. A Slightly Skewed Sort of Balance
16. An Everlasting Thanksgiving Memory -- 17. Tet: End of the Simple Push-Pull -- 18. Drums and Bugles -- 19. Post Tet: A New Ballgame -- 20. Anatomy of a Firefight -- 21. SEAL PBR Operations: Just Do It -- 22. Occasionally Out of the Bush -- 23. The Medicine Was Definitely Worse -- 24. A Most Well-known Monkey -- 25. The "Right" and the "Good" -- 26. A Strange Maturity -- 27. Clarity of Vision Reserved for One -- 28. Always Begin with "You Ain't Gonna Believe This Shit" -- 29. Counterinsurgency: Two Beaux Wooing the Same Girl -- 30. So, What Do We Do Now? -- Index
