Psalm 105: The invisible hand of God

In March 2004, Donovan Campbell, then 25, a Princeton grad who decided he’d rather learn leadership skills in the military than in the corporate world, arrived in Iraq with a 40-man infantry platoon called Joker One. For the entirety of their deployment, they had 160 men to stabilize a city of approximately 350,000 — one United States soldier for every 2,200 Iraqis. They averaged three enemy contacts per day. Campbell said, “By the time we returned, we had taken about half wounded. One out of every two men who went over came back hurt.”