Ellen Moore is a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley.

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Basic Training: Making the Soldier, Militarizing the Civilian  25
2. What They Bring with Them: Effects of Military Training on Student Veterans  43
3. Campus Veteran Support Initiatives  77
4. Veteran Self-Help: Embracing, Re-creating, and Contesting Gendered Military Relations  97
5. Spectral Wars and the Myth of the Antimilitary Campus  127
6. "Thank You for Your Service": Gratitude and Its Discontents  165
Conclusion  189
Notes  201
Bibliography  237
Index  253