Calderon, Aramis2019-02-222019-02-222019-01-03http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/661Dismount is a linked short story collection about five Marine veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom who returned to America, but never went home. Each character is on a road, weighed down by their combat load, and yet they march on. This work examines their lives antebellum, during a combat deployment overseas, and the time afterwards reintegrating into society after the Corps.en-USShort storiesMarine CorpsOperation Iraqi FreedomThesis