When I Come Home

PTRP stands for Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Platoon. This is where our weary protagonist lands with a fractured pelvis after only five weeks of basic training. With a platoon full of privates with broken bones and nowhere important to be, watch the interpersonal dynamics that develop between them and the increasingly wild antics in the barracks. As each day passes, everyone goes a little more stir crazy. Tomi Laine Clark candidly shares her military experience in the form of letters home to her lover: joining up in high hopes, getting injured, making friends, making enemies, making decisions, and, finally, being released after an interminable purgatory in PTRP. This quick read allows the outsider an insider view into Army policy, the psychology of isolation, and human nature under pressure.