Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army

by Kayla Williams and Michael E. Staub

From Basic Training to Baghdad, from Mosul to a remote outpost on the Syrian border - this raw memoir gives a vivid picture of Kayla Williams's deployment in Iraq. During her time in the army she witnessed death up close, and horrifying disregard for human life and foreign cultures. Through it all - the violence, boredem and fear, as well as the light-hearted moments of camaraderie and flirtation - she brings home with vivid intensity the experience of being a woman soldier in the US Army today.

• ISBN10: 0753821060
• ISBN13: 9780753821060
• Publish Date: 4 October 2006 (first published 11 January 2006)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 19 August 2010
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Imprint: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[RoXXie]

As a woman it happens quite often that you will get downrated by your male coworkers. Why? Not quite sure. Maybe they think you can't handle it for being a woman; you aren't strong enough or not tough enough? It will always a be a big riddle to the female population, why men think this way. But for some reason, we are used it and we still walk our path the way we want it. Getting around the big stones or jump the hurdles. But we do it. They try to talk us down, over and over again. A female reaction in a men's world, especially for Kayla Williams in the U.S. Army, she tries even harder; twice harder.
Her book about her time in the military and a year downrange in Iraq, is good book for those who wanna get a closer look to a female soldier life.