Always a Soldier is a biography by author Rob Smith about Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out as America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican.

Moonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking political memoir and commentary from a bold new voice in American politics. Before becoming a veteran and political analyst, he was a young black man who enlisted in the United States Army shortly after graduating from high school, surviving the infamous basic infantry training course. brutal, and served while remaining a closed homosexual to all but a few of his colleagues. At his first duty station, he finds himself in dangerous territory when the United States declares war on Iraq; in fact, his unit was one of the first to be called in after the first invasion.