ABSTRACT
The ethnography of embodied war experience offers a way to explore and even to bridge the perpetual construction of war's mutually exclusive inside and outside, and to trouble the categories by which it is known in the first place. The Warrior Transition Unit (WTUs) were created in the wake of the 2007 Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal to provide a uniform, force-wide system of care for soldiers the Army deemed too sick or injured to do their regular jobs. They were cycled into WTU to be treated and evaluated under close supervision of caseworkers and commanders while able-bodied took their places in deploying line units. One approach to stories like Stewart's is to imagine that the facts can simply speak for themselves, giving evidence of war's brutality and unreason, its insult to human life and dignity.
