Time for a War Story

A Tale of Disillusionment Because of Shitty Soccer Balls and Cheap Ass Water Filters

In 2009, I was deployed to Iraq for the second time—this time with a Joint Expeditionary SIGINT Tactical Reconnaissance (JESTR) group. JESTRs were two-man teams attached to maneuver units (i.e., infantry, artillery, mechanized infantry, etc). We used our fancy intel to kick down doors, collect intelligence, and detain bad people, and we also did other…