Showing posts with label Marines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marines. Show all posts
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Lyle Jeremy Rubin, Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body

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Lyle Jeremy Rubin, Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming .
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Saul David, Devil Dogs

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At Amazon, Saul David, Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan .
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Nathaniel C. Fick, One Bullet Away

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See, Nathaniel C. Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer .
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Big West, The Village

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At Amazon, Big West, The Village: Fifteen Men Walked In. Eight Walked Out (Commandant's Reading List) . 
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Mark Shields, TV Pundit Known for His Sharp Wit, Dies at 85

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At the New York Times , " A former campaign strategist, he became a fixture in American political journalism and punditry and was seen ...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio, Implacable Foes

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At Amazon, Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio, Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 .
Sunday, June 12, 2022

E. B. Sledge: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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A classic, E. B. Sledge: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa — Frontline Marine Combat in Two of the Bloodiest Island Invasions of Wo...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps

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At Amazon, Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps: 10th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author .
Friday, January 7, 2022

Flying Marines

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This is hard to beat: Sure we could've chosen to vaccinate the world and thus dramatically reduce the chance of variants like delta and ...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Thomas Ricks, Making the Corps

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At Amazon, Thomas Ricks, Making the Corps (10th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author) . 
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps

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At Amazon, Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps: 10th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author .
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle

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This book's apparently required reading in the Marine Corps, said to be one of the best books ever written on moral leadership. At Ama...
Monday, July 10, 2017

President Trump Picks Up Marine's Hat

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At the Hill, " Trump puts hat on Marine after wind carries it away ." And at Theo's, " WINNING as obvious as Day from N...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Bing West, The March Up

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At Amazon, Bing West, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines .
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

'Toxic Masculinity'? In the Marines? You Can't Be Freakin' Serious?

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I want to use the full f-word in the headline. It's much more effective at getting the point across, but I'm restrained by the examp...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Moment for the Fallen on #MemorialDay

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Care of the U.S. Marines: A moment for the fallen. #MemorialDay pic.twitter.com/jidPsVbTn8 — U.S. Marines (@USMC) May 29, 2017
Sunday, March 26, 2017

The Dark Side of Gender Segregation in the Military

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This is pretty interesting. I've done pretty much zero reading and study in this area, so just read it all at the link without comment...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Marine Corps Nude Photo Scandal (VIDEO)

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's been on a hardcore feminist jihad anyway. These hearings just gave her a platform to spew her PC rage. At...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

U.S. Marines Have Landed in Syria

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Well, you know what they say: Send in the Marines! And they have. At the Washington Post, " Marines have arrived in Syria to fire a...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Rescuers Search for 12 Marines from Downed Helicopters in Hawaii (VIDEO)

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What the hell happened? Damn. At the San Diego Union-Tribune, " High surf declines off Oahu as rescuers search for Marines ." ...