Proud To Be A Marine

Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781492636595

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Proud to Be a Marine by C. Brian Kelly Pdf

Behind one of the most celebrated military branches in America are the often little-known actions of its brave warriors. Proud to be a Marine amplifies the human voices amidst the cannon blasts and gun fire — from the American Revolution to modern day — and provides fresh insight that will inspire and excite those interested in the proud legacy of the Marines . . . This one of a kind collection includes: • Union Corporal John Mackie's historic rallying cry as he earned the first ever Medal of Honor for a Marine • The daring actions of Captain Bill Hawkins, the first Marine to step foot on Guadalcanal • ROTC Cadet Vernice Armour's inspiring rise from police officer to first African-American female combat pilot in the history of the United States Marines From the shores of Tripoli to the careful action against deadly IEDs in the Middle East, the anecdotal back stories of these upstanding Marines are proof they have always been ready, and always the "First to Fight."

Author : Heather Venable
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682474822

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How the Few Became the Proud by Heather Venable Pdf

For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.

Author : Thomas Hitchcock
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Hitchcock, Thomas
ISBN : 9781434943835

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One of the Few, the Proud, the Marines by Thomas Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Larry Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393329926

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The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words by Larry Smith Pdf

From the sands of Iwo Jima to the deserts of Iraq, this "New York Times" bestseller features riveting, real-life stories of training young marines. 30 photos.

Author : Nathaniel Fick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618773435

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One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick Pdf

An ex-Marine captain shares his story of fighting in a recon battalion in both Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning with his brutal training on Quantico Island and following his progress through various training sessions and, ultimately, conflict in the deadliest conflicts since the Vietnam War.

Author : Col. Ray L'Heureux,Lee Kelley
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466837751

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Inside Marine One by Col. Ray L'Heureux,Lee Kelley Pdf

Col. Ray "Frenchy" L'Heureux always dreamed of bring a pilot. Growing up, he built airplane models and dreamed about soaring over the earth. When he was twelve, his mom treated him to a flying lesson at the local airfield. Taken on a short flight by an instructor and allowed to operate the controls for part of the flight, he was hooked forever. It wasn't until he was running low on college funds and saw a recruiter at his college that he joined the Marines and began the journey towards his dream from Parris Island to Bravo Company and, then, officer training school. One day at an airfield when President Reagan landed on this way to a fundraiser, Frenchy's life changed forever when encountered HMX1, the squadron that flies the President in Marine One. When he saw the white-topped Sea King and White Hawk helicopters, he was determined to become part of that elite group. Inside Marine One is Col. L'Heureux's inspiring story of a young man who dreamed of flying, trained, studied and worked hard to become the pilot who ended up serving four US Presidents - George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It's also a personal guided tour inside the world's most famous helicopter by a man who knows that flying machine better than any other. Inside Marine One is a great American success story of a young boy who dreamed big, worked hard and finally flew the President of the United States as his number one passenger.

Author : Larry Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393243239

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The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words by Larry Smith Pdf

The New York Times bestseller: From the sands of Iwo Jima to the deserts of Iraq, the riveting, real-life stories of training young marines. Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this powerful oral history offers the voices of veterans from every major war of the last sixty years, concluding with accounts of what it takes to train marines for Iraq today. The Few and the Proud contains revelatory details about the vicious training techniques used to prepare marines for the great battles against Japan in the Pacific; the Ribbon Creek training disaster of the 1950s; and legendary stories by the likes of Iwo Jima veteran "Iron" Mike Mervosh and R. Lee Ermey, the infamous drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket. With death-defying accounts relayed from the MCRD in San Diego and the legendary Parris Island, The Few and the Proud is both a personal history of the 230-year-old U.S. Marine Corps and a repository of heroism, leadership, and determination in the toughest division of the United States military.

Author : E. Michael Helms
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743498616

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The Proud Bastards by E. Michael Helms Pdf

A riveting memoir of one marine rifleman's journey from Parris Island through the hell of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines. In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines—and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever change him—and by its end, he would be awarded the Purple Heart Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit Citation, and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry. From the brutality and endurance-straining ordeals of boot camp to the endless horror of combat, Helms paints a vivid, unflinchingly realistic depiction of the lives of Marines in training and under fire. As powerful and compelling a battlefield memoir as any ever written, Helms's “grunt's-eye” view of the Vietnam War, the men who fought it, and the mindless chaos that surrounded it, is truly a modern military classic.

Author : Retanya Collins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514432921

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“Top” a Proud Marine by Retanya Collins Pdf

“Corporal Collins then heard enemy fire, and it sounded pretty close. Both of the injured men were on stretchers with ropes attached to the medic aircraft, so the rescue party quickly hoisted them aboard. The enemy fire was nearing, so the medic rescue jet had to take off quickly. Since Corporal Collins was not aboard yet—he was still in the water—the crew promised him that they would return for him.” The above is just one paragraph from the many riveting story lines that tell the biography of Master Gunnery Sergeant Willie L. Collins, affectionately known as Top by his crew. This is a story about an American family who happens to be African American, and it is spellbinding, interesting, and a feel-good story that needs to be told.

Author : Nick Popaditch,Mike Steere
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611210378

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Once a Marine by Nick Popaditch,Mike Steere Pdf

The Silver Star–awarded marine chronicles his service in Iraq in this “transcendent memoir of military service and its personal consequences” (Ralph Peters, Lt. Col., ret., author of Looking For Trouble). In April, 2003, an AP photographer captured a striking image seen around the world of Gunny Sergeant Nick Popaditch smoking a victory cigar in his tank, the haunting statue of Saddam Hussein hovering in the background. Though immortalized in that moment as “The Cigar Marine,” Popaditch’s fighting was far from over. The following year, he fought heroically in the battle for Fallujah and suffered grievous head wounds that left him legally blind and partially deaf. But he faced the toughest fight of his life when he returned home: the battle to remain the man and Marine he was. At first, Nick fights to get back to where he was in Iraq-in the cupola of an M1A1 main battle tank, leading Marines in combat. As the seriousness and permanence of his disabilities become more evident, Nick fights to remain in the Corps in any capacity and help his brothers in arms. Then, following a medical retirement, he battles for rightful recognition and compensation for his disabilities. Throughout his harrowing ordeal, Nick fights to maintain his honor and loyalty, waging all these battles the same way—the Marine way—because anything less would be a betrayal of all he holds dear.

Author : Nancy P Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997317477

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The Very Few, the Proud by Nancy P Anderson Pdf

Author : Burke Davis
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504034395

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Marine! by Burke Davis Pdf

The gripping story of an extraordinary American hero, the most decorated man in US Marine Corps history, from a New York Times–bestselling author. “We are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now!” —Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC In the glorious chronicles of the US Marine Corps, no name is more revered than that of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller. The only fighting man to receive the Navy Cross five separate times—a military honor second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor—he was the epitome of a professional warrior. A son of the South, descendant of Robert E. Lee, and cousin to George S. Patton, Puller began his enlisted career during World War I and moved up through the ranks as he proved his battlefield mettle in Haiti and Nicaragua, with the Horse Marines in Peking, in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and in the nightmarish winter engagements of the Korean War. Fearless and seemingly indestructible, adored by the troops he championed yet forced into early retirement by a high command that resented his “lowly” beginnings and unwillingness to play politics, Puller remains one of most towering figures in American military history. Bestselling military biographer Burke Davis paints the definitive portrait of this extraordinary marine hero.

Author : Keisha Jones
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508144328

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My Brother Is in the Marine Corps by Keisha Jones Pdf

The United States Marine Corps has been an active military organization since 1775. In its 240-year history, countless marines have defended our nation in air, water, and on land. Their families have stood behind them as proud pillars of strength and support. This title explores the USMC through the eyes of a child whose brother is in the Marines. The text explores the past and present of this important military branch and the career opportunities it offers. This text also examines the joys and struggles of having a family member who serves. Readers learn what it feels like to be part of a military family through this age-appropriate text. Fact boxes and highly detailed photographs help keep readers engaged.

Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780684848174

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Making the Corps by Thomas E. Ricks Pdf

Inside the marine corps and what it takes to become "One of the few, the proud, the Marines."

Author : Iain Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461749882

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Greatest U.S. Marine Corps Stories Ever Told by Iain Martin Pdf

On Friday, November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved a resolution for the organization of the Corps, creating what would become the hallowed few, the proud--the Marines. Since then, the men and women of the United States Marine Corps have created the finest traditions of service and honor, and supplied a pantheon of heroes who have upheld them. In The Greatest U.S. Marine Stories Ever Told, editor Iain Martin has accumulated these marines' most amazing true tales of service and sacrifice, from the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli, to the conflicts where they serve today.