• Knee deep is about as deep as those holes got over three days. Getting bracketed by effective indirect fire is a drag. More so when you have lousy cover.

I wrote this for the New York Times Magazine At War page. It was a great, and educational, experience. I got to work with professional editors and correspondents and I learned a lot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/iraq-marine-phraselator.html?fbclid=IwAR0xwEu_srlXfTsBSr3Gv2EOjf1n00F1BNtdfr9C1s6xFMDWkb8qL-a27LU