(Part 4) Top products from r/USMC

The book that changed my life and thought processes the most was and is Wild at Heart by John Eldredge.

https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Heart-Revised-Updated-Discovering/dp/1400200393/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539659903&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=wild+at+heart+john+eldredge&dpPl=1&dpID=41Jvn2qswGL&ref=plSrch

I don’t want to shoot the “God gun” at you guys, but it’s the best I’ve got. Even if only a portion of what Eldredge is proposing is true or correct, it’s revolutionary in how you process your life and the events in it, and what’s going on in this world.

The other book is Rangers in the Gap: Act with Courage, Never Surrender by Richard Drebert. This is about Dave Eubank (former Ranger and SF officer) and his Free Burma Rangers.

https://www.amazon.com/Rangers-Gap-Courage-Never-Surrender/dp/1938478312

I did two WTI's in Yuma, never saw one do anything vertical. I'm sure they do but they seemed to operate at 45 degrees on the nozzles most of the time. [A Nightmares Prayer] (https://www.amazon.com/Nightmares-Prayer-Marine-Harrier-Afghanistan/dp/1451608071) is a pretty good look at the operations at Bagram. At that altitude it did good to leave the ground at all and used up all the runway doing so.

Drunk or not, I hope you keep this up.

It sounds like you really gained a lot from your time in, namely: (1) personal growth and maturity, and (2) a broadened world view from experience. Experience as someone actively taking part in US foreign policy, and also just as a young American going overseas and seeing how the rest of the world lives (and how truly fortunate we are here). Just that you called your 16-year-old self "naive" shows this change in mindset. Also, I think that any introspection is healthy and natural, especially for such a serious topic. It's a tough time, especially watching the current shit-storm in Iraq with those ISIS assholes.


I appreciate and generally agree with Nate Fick's view of the US on the international stage:
http://youtu.be/7mBr1UydKf0?t=18m2s

Sure, the US has done some not-so-great things or maybe done well-intentioned things the wrong way. But I don't think we're the bad guys in the broader scheme of things. Yeah, that's up for debate. Also, I'm gonna guess you're not evil on the individual level.

and more along a similar line, specifically about the Middle East and elsewhere:
http://youtu.be/fQu_7hNjPqY?t=3m27s



a serious issue, but a little [British] humor on a related note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY

Here's a slightly better version of the cover, in case you wanted the name of the author of Star Base X. That link also includes the back cover.

This issue has been re-released and is available on Amazon. The 'look inside' feature is available and has a bunch of pages from 'Star Base X' as well as a table of contents (if you were interested in seeing what other stories appeared in this issue).

The ISFDB also has an entry about this issue, in case you wanted to learn more about the authors that appeared in this issue. Apparently the author of the cover story also had a second story in this issue, using the pen name "Pvt. Russell Storm".

Check out the Commandant's Reading list recommendations for Officer Candidates. I'd add One Bullet Away and What it's Like to go to War to that list as well.

How is your general knowledge? Do you know all of your Troop Leading Steps, Leadership Traits, General Orders, and Operational Order sub-paragraphs?

It's always easier to start out strict and ease up.

And read "It's Your Ship".

Armor is also a great book in the vein of Starship Troopers.

>The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it.

https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047

This is what we got, but in notebook form and in hard cover.

We got it in receiving, thankfully, because we sat on the floor for three days waiting to get picked up.

Fucking this. I joined in 2000 and still had enough wherewithal to do my research beforehand. Not too much of it was online, since the Internet as we know it was still in its infancy, but I read books like Boot (lol) and talked to some of the guys who had returned for RA and shit like that.

My only regret is that I didn't push harder for things like an enlistment bonus. Missed out on 50k that way.

Archie was a true blue falcon, you should read Maverick Marine next.

Battle of Sangin

Battleground Pacific it would seem.

I see someone else has been pursuing the Commandant's reading list...

> Rex Grossman wrote of the

Rex Grossman did no such thing.

You're referring to LtCol Dave Grossman's book "On Killing"

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812996836/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_IBL7CbNKV5BBP

And while not exclusively about the Corps, Thunder and Flames deals with the AEF during WW1 leading up to the St Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. Lots of stuff in there about the 4th Brigade, which included the 5th and 6th Marines. The same author wrote To Conquer Hell on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which although has very little USMC history in it, it is the only book Ive ever read that gave me nightmares.

Western Europe is willingly aiding in the destruction of their own culture.

If you'd like to read why, and be depressed:

https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Death-Europe-Immigration-Identity/dp/1472942248/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

> He was operated on by a Navy doctor (a trauma surgeon), not a nurse

From the book The Evolution of Forward Surgery in the U.S. Army: From the Revolutionary War to the Combat Operations of the 21st Century he was referred to as Navy Nurse.

So maybe I got my information wrong, can you point me to an article or a book that says Navy Doctor so that I can change the info in here?