CONTENTS

      Prologue: Shadows of Dawn

  1  The Monsters of Weeki Wachee Springs

  2  To Lead and to Serve

  3  Annapolis

  4  The Dark Ages

  5  Two Left Shoes

  6  Hooyah America

  7  A Cut Above

  8  Inshallah

  9  The Toll of War

10  Shattered Dream

11  Under the Influence

12  Fields of Fire

13  Becoming a Warrior

14  The Night Osama bin Laden Was Killed

15  Somewhere Bright

16  In Between

17  Tap, Advance

18  My Country Calls Back

19  A Golden Opportunity

20  Alive Day

21  Fifty Stars and Thirteen Stripes

      Afterword: The Delta

      Acknowledgments: Brad Snyder

      Acknowledgments: Tom Sileo

      Index