Afghanistan diary

"In December, 2002, Lieutenant Colonel McAllister arrived in Afghanistan for a 90-day deployment. Eight months later, he boarded a C-17 to leave. During those eight months, he wrote home about his stay. Rather than standard letters, though, he wrote vignettes, stories and observations about everything from the night sky to portable toilets, dining facilities to Afghan people, rocket attacks to repatriation of remains."--p.4 of cover.