Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Modern Military Folklore 1
5. Part I Deploying
6. 1 The Things They Bring to War 19
7. 2 Know Thy Enemy 38
8. 3 “Folk-Folkloristics” 58
9. Part II Sounding Off
10. 4 Where Is Jody Now? 79
11. 5 Upper Echelons and Boots on the Ground 99
12. 6 Sea Service Slang 116
13. Part III Belonging
14. 7 Taser to the ’Nads 139
15. 8 Making Lemonade 161
16. 9 Oppositional Positioning 181
17. Part IV Remembering
18. 10 Colonel Bogey’s March through Folk and Popular Culture 205
19. 11 Soldier Snaps 222
20. 12 “America’s Best” 248
21. Selected Bibliographies 271
22. Contributors 277
23. Index 281