I wasn’t expecting an amazing story and it wasn’t. But it was well written and the longer I listened to it the more I looked forward to when I could pick it up again. I’m a gay vet and what I found was very similar experience and thoughts/feelings/circumstance despite that I was an officer in non-combat duty whereas the author was enlisted in combat duty. The narrative would appeal to anyone – it’s not all about the gay, it’s more about an average soldiers daily experience in the military, with a deployment to Iraq, and by the way he’s gay which add’s another dimension. The narrator is very good – it might have been better with a younger narrator for the effect, but that was a minor distraction. I’m generally not interested in contemporary war tales (too soon) but I liked the non-rambo style in which this story was told.