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It's war.\xa0 It's what we can only imagine hell to be like, and Justin Watt lived through it.\xa0 His story is eye-opening and shaded by the dark narratives and hard choices that only war can draw out.\xa0 He was a member of the 101st Airborne Division's renowned 502nd Infantry Regiment, serving as an infantryman in Iraq's "Triangle of Death" in 2005-06.\xa0 His unit suffered unimaginable losses during their year-long deployment, and the horror only intensified when four members of his platoon, his brothers in arms, murdered an Iraqi family of four in\xa0Yusufiyah, and then gang raped their fourteen year old daughter before shooting her to death and setting her body on fire, in an attempt to cover up their involvement.\xa0 Justin tells the story of how he survived a year of unrelenting enemy attacks, a persistent breakdown in unit leadership, and ultimately the immediate backlash from that same leadership when he was the first to speak up about the murdered Iraqi family and report it\xa0to U.S. Army officials.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices