Navigating Identity, Mental Health, and Loyalty

The Indian-American Immigrant's Journey

I am an Indian immigrant to the United States of America. I arrived in the nineties and enlisted in the U.S. Army. I faced the harsh realities of adjusting to a foreign country and getting used to a new culture, new people, new friends, and, dare I say, new enemies. I was hand-picked by senior Army leaders to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq after the trag…