Part memoir, part history lesson, part absurdist situational comedy, A LIFE AWAY follows the course of one young officer's deployment as part of the now 13 year-long War on Terror. Trained as an architect, he had been recruited into the US Navy's Civil Engineer Corps while still a student, a half year before the attacks of September 11th. Fresh off the completion of his first tour in New Orleans and only months into his second posting, the still quite green Lieutenant was abruptly called up for emergency deployment to Afghanistan, as one of the Navy's first "Individual Augmentees" sent to...