Description

Stepping Off recounts 25 years of Middle Eastern wars through the journals of former college sweethearts who became U.S. Marines. Their separate writings sketch the total Marine experience: officer and enlisted, battlefield and garrison, man and woman. Chronicling everything from historic battles to barracks chatter, both authors show fine ears for the language that defines everyday military life. Fighting from air, land, and sea, their interwoven careers reconnect in battle as Marines leave Afghanistan in 2014.