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All the ways we kill and die : an elegy for a fallen comrade, and the hunt for his killer
\"When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American forces have been hunting since Iraq, known as the Engineer? In this nonfiction thriller Castner takes us inside the manhunt for this elusive figure, meeting maimed survivors, interviewing the forensics teams who gather post-blast evidence, the wonks who collect intelligence, the drone pilots and contractors tasked to kill\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Bethlehem Revisited
EOD is Explosive Ordnance Disposal, the military bomb squad, the guys who disarm all those improvised explosive devices buried in the roads over there. [...]he was fascinated by the massive one-cylinder generators that provided occasional power to his missionary childhood home, and he proved adept at fixing them. Generators led to bush-pilot propjobs, propjobs led to Continental and United airlines and the Air Force Reserve, where he served for twenty-five years, fixing C-l4ls and KC-10s and deploying all over the Middle East.
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The long walk : a story of war and the life that follows
This work is a powerful account of war and homecoming. The author served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team, his brothers, would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the long walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But this book is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When the author returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor's guilt that he terms The Crazy. His book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within, the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as \"normal\"?
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The Long Walk: a conversation with Brian Castner
[...]whether he was willing or not, he became somewhat of a spokesman-not only for the EOD career field, but for an entire generation of returning veterans. Because the subject matter is so gruesome, straightforward might be cringe inducing and make the reader squirm, but such was the experience. [...]veterans only need to look at the chart on page 74 of Flow. Because my Crazy feeling never went away, I assumed it never would.
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Editor's Notes
[...]they borrow the ears of their audience to hear their own voices. Yet Brian Castner, in his \"Bethlehem Revisited\" in this issue, not only invites the reader into his experience, but he also visits the grieving father of another veteran bomb technician who has since died in a motorcycle accident.
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