Prologue : nightmare
Advisor duty
Contractors
Training
Gear
Transit
Cop south
Arrival
Humvees
Introductions
IAs
Growing pains
Storms
Outside the wire
Matters of importance
Backing the wrong horse
Al Gabaa
Mistakes and mistrust
Eye-opening reality
Jibab Peninsula
Personalities and paradigms
Terps and tensions
Uglat il Bushab
Fear and paranoia
Gifts and free lunches
Abandonment issues
Running out of patience
Holding down the spring
Critters
A change of plans
Leaving
Dogs
A way forward.