The Devil Dealt The Cards

About the Book

"The Devil Dealt the Cards" is an emotionally engaging series of intimate stories derived from months of living among the natives on a small Afghan Army post called Gamberi Garrison. Captain Jackson, a female logistics officer, and her team find themselves tasked with training Afghanistan's greenest soldiers, while simultaneously living on a violent crossroads near the Pakistan border. Her personal recollections vividly portray the excitement, frustration, and danger of combined action in Afghanistan, all while covering nearly every dramatic theme imaginable. This heartwarming account illustrates how one small band of hardworking Americans, aided by their Afghan counterparts, transformed a neighborhood and forged bonds of steel between people of two opposite cultures.

About the Author

Sarah M. Jackson was born and raised on a grain farm in rural Virginia. She received a bachelor of arts from the University of Virginia where she also commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. Four years later, she became the operations officer of a logistics battalion stationed on a small Afghan military base near the Pakistan border. Captain Jackson was not only in charge of the day-to-day operations of her own seven-hundred-person unit, but she was also the chief officer responsible for training the Afghan National Army soldiers located on Gamberi Garrison. Captain Jackson has now resigned her commission to care for her growing family, but she continues to stay involved with the Army in support of her husband who still serves. She and her husband have been married for six years and have two children.