What are you drinking?

I talked to my friend Brandon this morning.

He had dysentery in Iraq. More than once. He knows the sickness better than any man should.

The troops had a name for it. Saddam’s revenge. It hit about three of every four men who deployed. In the spring of 2003 the invasion outran its own supply lines, and the toilets never caught up.

So men improvised. A steel…