To Benning and Back: The Making of a Citizen Soldier - My Journals of Daily Life in U.S. Army Basic Training and Officer Candidate School, from Private to Second Lieutenant, from First Call to Lights Out, and Yes, Everything in Between.
by Monroe Mann
Category: Biography & Autobiography

The true, daily, blow-by-blow journal entries of the author as he went through Army Basic Training and officer candidate school, this volume concludes with his being called to active duty for the first time on September 11th, 2001.