A.J. Lockridge

Author

A.J. Lockridge

AJ Lockridge is a former U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman whose writing is rooted in lived experience and quiet observation. He focuses on the realities that exist between moments of crisis—the fatigue, the dark humor, and the things carried long after the work is done. Blood and Dust is his first book, written as a record rather than a reflection, and offered without polish or spectacle.

Blood and Sand: A Corpsmans ledger of war (The Ledger of Survival Book 1)

From the series: The Ledger of Survival

Blood and Dust: A Corpsman’s Ledger of War is a work of adult literary war fiction set during the Afghanistan conflict between 2011 and 2013, told through the eyes of a Navy Hospital Corpsman embedded with Marine infantry on remote combat outposts and foot patrols. Written as a series of interconnected narratives, the book traces the gradual...

Series

The Ledger of Survival

The Ledger of Survival is a four-book literary series that follows a Navy Hospital Corpsman through war, aftermath, collapse, and the long work of choosing to stay alive. Told as lived fiction, the series records moments that don’t resolve cleanly—deployments that blur...

Blood and Sand: A Corpsmans ledger of war (The Ledger of Survival Book 1)

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February 19, 2026

The Ledger Continues — Volume II Arrives March 18th

On March 18th, 2026, the second entry in The Ledger of Survival will be released.

Between the Wounded and the Living continues the record where the first volume ended — moving...

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February 19, 2026

The Ledger Continues

When I started The Ledger of Survival, I didn’t do it with a plan for a series. I was trying to put something down before it slipped further away. The first book was about recording what happened without softening it, without shaping it into something easier to digest. Once it was finished, I realized there was more that hadn’t been written yet—not because it was forgotten, but because it hadn’t reached the surface.

The second book, Between the Wounded and the Living, comes from that...