So many are either getting out or those who love the Army or at least trying to do something different, maybe get a job teaching ROTC at a college just to get away from Iraq.
Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.
Kayla Williams, author of the memoir, "Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, " said she thought most of the enlisted men would accept women into combat units.