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Author : Larry Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393329926
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 : Larry Smith
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0393060446
Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this 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. It 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.--From publisher description.
Author : Amanda D. Sams
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787695335
In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the worlds most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.
Author : Thomas Hitchcock
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Hitchcock, Thomas
ISBN : 9781434943835
Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780684848174
Inside the marine corps and what it takes to become "One of the few, the proud, the Marines."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015078326942
Author : Nick Popaditch
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210996
The transition from civilian to that of a Marine is a process unlike any other in any branch of the military. As any potential recruit can imagine, Marine recruit training is difficult and challenging. Its purpose is to mold a Marine from the inside out. Nick “Gunny Pop” Popaditch is best known as the “Cigar Marine” and author of Once a Marine, a candid memoir about his service as a tank commander in Iraq, his horrific wounding in the first battle of Fallujah (where he was hit in the head by a rocket-propelled grenade), and his long and difficult recovery. Gunny Pop has experienced the Marine recruit training process from both perspectives: as a new recruit and as a drill instructor. This new book brings together his nearly 16 years of Marine Corps expertise. The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook is a comprehensive, practical, and easy-to-follow guide written specifically for every new or prospective recruit about to enter basic training. Gunny Pop offers step-by-step instructions and solutions, including helpful charts and graphics, for how to prepare both physically and mentally for boot camp. Written by a Marine who experienced it firsthand many times over, Gunny Pop explores what recruits will be asked to do (and in many cases, explain why) and the motivating forces behind drill instructor lessons and behavior. The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook was written by a Marine and former drill instructor for young men and women who want to become one of the few and the proud. No one should undertake Marine recruit training without having read this book. About the Author: From East Chicago, Indiana, Nick Popaditch enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1986. He was wounded while commanding a tank in Fallujah (Iraq) in 2004 and medically retired from the Marines in 2005 at the rank of Gunnery Sergeant. “Gunny” and his wife April have two children, Richard and Nicholas. They reside in Chula Vista, California.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822034377747
Author : Nathaniel Fick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618773435
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 : Gregg Stoner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595484225
In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, there were two ways of becoming a Marine-being drafted and choosing to join. Author Gregg Stoner, a baby boomer in disagreement with the war, joined the Marine Corps as a protest against the draft and with a strong desire to avoid fighting in Vietnam. Stoner's first enlistment began just after the Tet Offensive and was during a time when most Marines were sent to combat. But he was the only soldier from his platoon of eighty-five to remain stateside. The Yellow Footprints to Hell and Back details Stoner's life in the military-from a private in boot camp to working as a sergeant drill master. Beginning with the first grueling experiences as a new recruit to the immense pride at graduation, Stoner shares his inner thoughts at what it took to become a Marine. He had joined the Marines to avoid fighting overseas, but he gained much more than he had imagined. Filled with abundant anecdotes, this personal memoir relays the interesting and, at times unbelievable, stories of the Marine Corps. It conveys the feelings and attitudes that dominated this special time in American history.
Author : Iain Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461749882
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.
Author : Frank Hernandez
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0738819506
“Marine Mystique” is an autobiographical work, where I seek to render an account of my memories and experiences as a Marine Corps Drill Instructor (D.I.). The book is framed with descriptions and the jargon (Explicit language), related to life as a Marine D. I. It is filled with depictions of individuals, conversations and my inner thoughts and emotions about the training of recruits as they strive to become Marines. Discover the reason it is so important for a D. I. To learn the ability to mask his own emotions. Learn what the making of a Marine is all about, from the D.I.s point of view. Feel the progression of pride as you turn each page, the pride that is the United States Marine Corps. Their Motto of Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful) and then know the Mystique and the kinship that is so strong, that these men and women are ready to die for one another. It all starts at Boot Camp and the D. I. And that is what this book is all about!
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180400
Author : Colonel Donald J. Myers USMC (Ret)
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781490736402
Marine Boot Camp has been described in many books and movies over the years and in many cases not favorably. The author is especially qualified to write about this subject because he went through a Boot Camp at Parris Island in 1953 and returned as the commanding officer of the Recruit Training Regiment in 1982 after spending a significant amount of time leading Marines as an officer and noncommissioned officer. The author goes into great detail explaining his theory about why abuse occurs. He also describes the quality of the drill instructors and their background. The author places the reader in the environment by telling stories about what is actually happening throughout the training cycle. He explains why more supervision or regulations will not eliminate abuse, but only by changing attitudes will that happen. His style of working with the drill instructors and junior officers takes the reader through the events. A totally new approach of stress management was implemented with superb results. Experts in conditioning and psychology were used in an effort to improve the production of basic Marines and reports from the operating forces supported the end results. The author spent most of his time out of the office observing training and speaking with recruits and drill instructors. Many of the changes that occurred were suggested by the drill instructors during these informal talks. Some of the changes that did occur are listed near the end of the book. Many of them remain in effect today while others have been overcome by time.
Author : Bob Taylor
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781412245555
Stories, mostly humorous, some nostalgic, about Marine Corps Boot Camp. What wasn't funny then can be humorous now. Marines, relatives, and friends submitted over 400 first-hand stories. The best of these are in this book. As one new Marine said to the author, "Nothing's funny in Boot Camp." But it is, years later.
