Book review: Bravo Company

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Without going to Afghanistan, a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, or a recovery ward at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bravo Company is an excellent way to begin to try, writes Kevin Carroll.

, in 2009-10. Those were two of the deadliest years in the United States's war in Afghanistan. Along with Helmand and Kunar provinces, Kandahar was among the deadliest places in that country, and the Arghandab was the most dangerous place within Kandahar.

Kesling’s book is marked by its sensitive consideration of Bravo Company’s men and how several, of different ranks, changed during and after deployment. He has a pitch-perfect ear for the hypersexualized and vulgar patois of an all-male, elite combat arms unit. The author explains the incomparably vivid, powerful feeling of being a well-armed and trained servicemember on a combat operation with trusted teammates.

Kesling’s graphic descriptions of the awful wounds that explosives inflict on young men are difficult to read, both for civilians unaware of war’s realities and for veterans struggling to forget them. In my view, it’s important to discuss such things unstintingly, so that all citizens understand what’s demanded of those they send to war: not just the dead but the disabled who, along with their families, deal with those realities for years afterward.

Perhaps this is among the reasons many of its veterans struggled with alcohol and suicide upon their return. Kesling lays out the manifold failures of the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration in their care for service members’ well-being.

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