Few and the Proud Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words

Name: Few and the Proud Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words
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ISBN: 9780393329926

ISBN-10: 0393329925

ISBN-13: 9780393329926

Edition: N/A

Authors: Larry Smith

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TheNew York Timesbestseller: 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 Proudcontains 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…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Old Breed: World War II, Korea, and Vietnam


Chuck Taliano


Recruit Training


Iron Mike Mervosh


Camp Pendleton


Bill Paxton


The Known Marine


Recruit Training


Ed Walls


Camp Lejeune


Dave Robles


Recruit Training


Robert Mastrion


Eddie Adams


Ribbon Creek: Sea Change in the Corps


Matthew C. McKeon


Morton Janklow


James Wheeler


Gene Alvarez


The Yellow Footprints


Marines and the Movies: Image Matters Greatly


R. Lee Ermey


Mike Malachowsky


The Crucible


Montford Point: How Blacks Made It into the Marines


Gene Doughty


Herman Rhett


Ellis Cunningham


David Dinkins


Women Marines: The Fight for Equality


Denise Kreuser


Doris Kleberger


Mary Sue League


Jeanne Botwright


Christine Henning


Counting Cadence


Women Counting Cadence


The New Breed: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same


Rodolfo Rodriguez


Clint Kreuser


Josh Wylie


Rob Bush


Will Post


Keith Burkepile


Men Counting Cadence


The Known Marine