“This is one hell of a honeymoon,” Heidi Radkiewicz thought to herself as she opened fire on a farmhouse a few miles away from the Baghdad Airport. She and the rest of her convoy of Army National Guardsmen were under fire from insurgents. As she loaded a fresh magazine into her rifle, she caught sight of her husband, Jake, who was a few trucks behind her, and kept shooting.
Being a woman in combat is unusual, but being a married woman deployed alongside her husband even more so. In “Honeymoon in Baghdad,” Radkiewicz tells the strange story of her first few months of marriage, which took place in military camps in the middle of Iraq and consisted of hours of boredom, suffocating heat, frequent ambushes by insurgents and clandestine trysts with Jake whenever the two could find some privacy. It also created an unbreakable bond with her new husband.
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WNU editor: Not my idea of a honeymoon.
