Length3h 57m
About this audiobook
After the Storm is a raw memoir of war, survival, family, and the difficult journey home. U.S. Marine Corps Force Recon veteran Andrew Cahill recounts his path from a young Marine to the battlefields of Iraq, including the 2003 invasion and the violence of Fallujah in 2004, and the battles that continued long after he left the combat zone.
Written with Catherine Cahill, After the Storm is not simply a war story. It is an account of marriage, fatherhood, trauma, mistakes, survival, and the struggle to rebuild a life after war. It follows a Marine through combat and into the far less visible fight of coming home, confronting what happened, and finding reasons to keep moving forward.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length3 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1AFTER THE STORM
2Childhood: Natick to Chelmsford
3Evan Boudreau and the Family That Took Me In
4Writing as Escape
5Parris Island, 2000
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6Platoon 1068. Alpha Company. 1st Recruit Training Battalion.
7PT, Discipline, and the Limits of Exhaustion
8Maintenance Week
9Characters
10From Camp Geiger to 2/5
11Camp Geiger — The School of Infantry
12Coronado — Waiting for BRC
13Learning Under Corporal MacGillivray
14Arriving at Fort Benning
15The First Jump
16The MMPS Course
17Then I stopped.
18Being Remembered for the Stumble
19Gunny Harrington
20"Gunnnnnyyyyyy, I knnnowwww."
21The One Who Knew Me, and the One Who Didn't
22A Platoon Commander Worth Following
23"Miiiiisssssserably."
24PART III — THE STORM
25Trying to Find Peace Again After Hell
26From San Diego to Camp Matilda
27Across the Border — The Long Drive, the White Trucks
28Nasiriyah — The Bridge, the River, Earning the Ribbon
29Flanking East — Canals, Lead Truck, and Civilians
30Pinned Down — Danger-Close Artillery
31Seizing the Airfield — Everyone Is Hostile
32Baghdad and North to Baqubah — The Dragon Eye and a T-72
33The Dragon Eye — When Equipment Fails
34Seventeen Engagements — The Number That Anchors
35Homecoming — March Air Force Base
36A Near-Friendly Fire Incident
37Generation Kill — ROE, Information, and Moral Weight
38Generation Kill matters.
391st Reconnaissance Battalion, Alpha Company, 3rd Platoon
40Camp Fallujah
41Woken from a Dead Sleep
42Leaving
43How You Met Your Wife
44And the wildest part?
45Deborah
46Nothing. No response. No movement. No sound.
47She Intrigued Me Before She Ever Knew Me
48After We Met — Our Life, Our Marriage, and Pendleton
49Oceanside — Our First Home
50Base Housing and Building a Family
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