The Hill

"We were chasing ghosts in killing fields, where adolescence ended and the war began." A captivating account of the deeply personal experience of modern combat and the raw, unfiltered reality of enlisted Marine Corps life. At twenty-one years old, Lance Corporal Aaron Kirk found himself in charge of a Marine infantry squad at one of the most austere patrol bases in all of deadly Helmand Province, Afghanistan. A desolate place, on the edge of the American military empire. A place without comfort