Sergeant Reiss insisted on giving a full patrol order every time we left the wire. I thought it was overkill, …
Adam Straus
Adam Straus graduated from Yale with a BA in Philosophy in 2017. Afterwards, he served in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Okinawa, and Twenty-nine Palms as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps. His work has also appeared in Duffel Blog, where he contributes under the pseudonym 29ReasonsWhy. Adam is currently an MFA candidate at Rutgers-Camden. He can be reached at adam.straus@rutgers.edu.