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Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm Matthew Gault. War isn't just about soldiering.

There's a complex web of logistics and medical staff

that keeps a fighting force fit.

Trauma surgeons are an important part of that process

and they're the subject of the new comic book memoir

Macheti Squad.

Publishers Weekly has signaled it as an independent book

to watch for this fall, and it's excellent.

With us today to talk about it,

are writers Brent Doolack and Kevin Nodell, as well as artist

Per-Darwenburg.

Doolack served three tours in the U.S. Army, where he worked as a trauma medic in both Iraq

and Afghanistan.

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