This is the true story about my experience as an Army officer assigned to a remote combat outpost in Afghanistan. We were forced to fight a war with two enemies; against the Taliban that surrounded us and against the command who needed to keep our struggle a secret. Combat Bureaucrat is the story of one isolated combat outpost besieged on a near daily basis in one of Afghanistan's most hostile areas, Charkh Valley. As the outpost's second in command and chief logistics officer, my job was to find a way to hold it all together and keep it running. Charged with the impossible task of putting order to the chaos around me, I fought my war with highlighters, clipboards and dark humor as often as I did with bullets or bombs.
Combat Bureaucrat is the thought-provoking, tragic and sometimes darkly funny journey of Bulldog Troop throughout its toughest moments in Afghanistan as told through the eyes of its second-in-command.
Combat Bureaucrat is the thought-provoking, tragic and sometimes darkly funny journey of Bulldog Troop throughout its toughest moments in Afghanistan as told through the eyes of its second-in-command.
