No man's war
Subtitle: irreverant confessions of an infantry wife
By: Angela Ricketts
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781619023833; 9781619023260
Subjects: United States. Army; Military life; Iraq War (2003-2011) fast (OCoLC)fst01802311; United States; Family relationships; Soldiers; Military; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Army spouses; Biography; Armed Forces
Description: Raised as an Army brat, Angie Ricketts thought she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin?then an infantry lieutenant?on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since that time, Darrin, now a colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts, has lived every one of those deployments intimately?distant enough to survive the years spent apart from her husband, but close enough to share a common purpose and a lifestyle they both love. With humor, candor, and a brazen attitude, Ricketts pulls back the curtain on a subculture ma.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Grey Street; Smurf Village; A New Screaming Eagle and His Indeciseive Wife; Currahee; Currashee; A Heart Too Steeled to Break; Cadence of Culture; Before The Worst; A Taste of This Side of War; Prophetic Dream; The Butt Boy and Earl Grey Tea; Stillness; ""Eyes On The Prize, Violet."" Wait. Is That Too Cliche; Buoyancy; Chinook, Down; Impulse and Instinct; Dodged Bullet; It's More Than Just a Bowling Ball to a Renegade Bitch Like Me; Mountain Mafia; Change of Command; A Choice; A Surge, Some Spin, and a Sucker Punch; The Race for a Brand-New Home; Summer of Hurry Up and Wait.; title: Deployment Day Flavored Kool-AidNon-Combat-Related Casualty; My Definition of Loyalty; Porch Pukers and teh Arrival of the Inevitable; A Rewritten Memory and Saving of Face; Tip of the Spear; Treadmills, Snow, and Escape; A Cathartic Levy Break; Index Cards; Before I Became Steeled; Eighteen Days of Polite Face; Sleeping in the Company of Skunks; ""Cover Your Panties on the Flagpole""; Stuffed French Toast and What I Can Never Forget; The Treadmill, Still; ""Chicken PIccata: What an Economical Choice for an Army Wife""; The Home Stretch and the Inevitable Moment; More Than A Race.; title: Little Bombshells and My Nugget of StrengthWhen I Get Home I Want to Pick Up the Pieces; War Hangover; Hails and Farewells; Echoes of Chaos; Army-Speak as a Second Language; Acknowledgments.