A soldier opens up about the toll that being deployed takes on mental health and relationships, including stress eating and watching casualties on TV.
The podcast discusses the role of daisy cutter bombs in war, specifically in relation to a particular operation that involved using them to mark a hole in the first defensive belt, and the controversy surrounding their use.
The speaker describes a new type of battle where attacks were coordinated and often involved machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades with the goal of using a suicide vehicle to drive right into the compound and detonate. The opponents had a territorial and movement advantage rather than being better trained.
A discussion on the creation of the Special Operations Schoolhouse to train and increase personnel for Marine Corps Special Forces missions.
NPR journalists Tom Bowman and Graham Smith investigate a hidden story from the Iraq War, focusing on a tragic day in Fallujah, in their series Taking Cover.