Daniel Fanning served in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard transportation unit. When he got there, the trucks had no armor. Only after a soldier embarrassed Donald Rumsfeld in front of the media did the Pentagon sent armor. Fanning was trained in bayonet fighting, which no one has done for decades. He learned how to kick down walls and destroy rooms, but “never one second of culture or language training. We had no idea how to respect (Iraqis).” The soldiers saw third world contractors exploited while American contractors made three or four times the pay of a GI. All of this damaged morale. “I enlisted [after 9/11] to be part of the solution, not part of the problem,” Fanning says, but I feel like I did just the opposite, and many of the people in my unit feel the same way.