They were trained for war, distance, fear, and survival. They were not trained for what followed them beyond the wire.
There are places in the world where the membrane between what is and what was becomes thin enough to see through. Most people never find those places. Soldiers do - not because they seek them out, but because the work of war and service takes them to ground that has absorbed more human experience, more fear, more loss, and more unfinished business than any civilian landscape accumulates in a century of ordinary living.
The accounts collected in this book were not gathered from people who went looking for the paranormal. They were gathered from people who went looking for nothing more than the completion of a mission, the end of a shift, the safe return of their team - and found, in the course of that ordinary professional pursuit, something that refused to be ordinary.