A View from A Broad, a livejournal.com site written by a U.S. soldier in southern Iraq. She introduces herself thus:
Good to know: Unabashed blue collar--as opposed to college---feminist with an interest in debate and/or bitching. If you're not a feminist or are actively hostile to the concept, you're in the wrong spot, to put it mildly. Book addict with workaholic tendencies. I have the world's weirdest job background. Sybil's resume looks more normal. Have no education whatsoever, possibly because I got tossed out of Catholic school three times. Used to be a ballet dancer, broke ankle. Quit, got bored, joined Army. Now I'm used to travelling to at least four countries a year and am spoiled rotten. I speak two other languages, and I bore, really, really easily, which might explain why house is decorated like a combination harem/Victorian whore house. I'm destined for eccentricity. Oh, yes, and for some odd reason, I write really schmoopy fanfic. Personally, however, I'm a bitch.
By the way, if you're anti-war, you're better off not reading my journal. Just giving fair warning. I'm a realist. I don't believe in Utopia or the Tooth Fairy. I think the world is a messy, scary, vivid place that can't be tamed, and that's what I think of people, too--if they're halfway interesting, which a lot of them are not. It might be nice if people were reasonable, but if they were, I'd be left writing travel brochures or something, because people would be too damned boring to write about. If people were reasonable creatures, they wouldn't be having interesting sex with the wrong people at the wrong time for the wrong reasons, and people wouldn't fall in love...they'd sort of...step into it, like getting into a car. And did I mention how boring that would be?
Her blog is four parts vivid accounts of battle, one part Buffy fanfiction.