‘They trained us to be killers. What happens when we get home?’: US veterans and families on the Iraq war

At the Iraq war’s peak, 170,000 US troops were in the country. Composite: Getty images

At the peak of the Iraq war, there were an estimated 170,000 members of the US military in the country. To maintain that level of force required not only long-serving members of the military but also army and navy reserves and a nationwide recruitment drive. Twenty years after the war, veterans and their families discuss what they have experienced.

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