The Long Walk: A Story Of War And The Life That Follows - Plot & Excerpts
No one liked getting to a hundred missions. You might not start counting right away, but after a month or two most would go back and make the tally. Seventeen IEDs. Twelve post-blast investigations. Seven weapons caches, buried in dirt floors of crumbling houses. Thirty-six missions. Then, a month later, fifty-three. Sixty-eight. Eighty-seven. As the counter kept clicking up, as you closed in on a hundred, the always-present stomach rumble that came with leaving the FOB gate now grew in intensity. The milestone of one hundred held no particular significance, except that it indicated you had been working too long and soon your luck would run out.In EOD culture, the role of Chaos is personified in the minor deity Murphy, of the popular Murphy’s Law: anything that can go wrong will. Murphy is invoked as a force of random failure by even the most hardened EOD operator to explain any chance occurrence that conspires to kill him or hamper his mission. Ropes that inexplicably loosen or snap.
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