NYT MAGAZINE: The Sergeant Lost Within

nytimes.com — in May 2005, Sgt. Shurvon Phillip who joined the Marine reserves seven years earlier at 17, partly as a way to pay his community-college tuition, was riding back to his base after a patrol when an anti-tank mine exploded under his Humvee. Though no shrapnel entered his head, the blast rattled his brain profoundly.