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François Reichenbach follows a group of young men from the day they enlist in the US Marine Corps, all the way through basic training. The power of this is twofold. It lies in the poetic visuals focused on the men's faces and expressions (scared, determined, chastened), and in the critical commentary, which questions the need to humiliate, threaten, and even endanger the lives of these recruits

_"RADIOMAN tells a universal story -- about war, family, and growing up. Andy Hesterman's 25 years in the Marines span a huge range of world events and personal experiences. I found myself laughing, rooting for him, and shaking my head at the insanity of it all. A great book!" _- Nathaniel Fick, NY Times best-selling author of ONE BULLET AWAY _ From a recruit surviving boot camp to a Major flying combat helicopters and controlling F/A-18s in Iraq, Andy Hesterman shares the pride of the Corps and the pain of saying goodbye to your family for yet another deployment. With Radioman, you'll feel like you've put on the Marine cammies and marched alongside Hesty for over two decades of service to our country. _ - Dell Epperson, Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) _"Radioman is far more than the story of one man's 25-year journey through the modern Marine Corps - as fascinating as that story is. It is also an account of the extraordinary changes - technological, tactical, moral - that have utterly transformed the American military in that time. Both gripping and honest, Radioman is also told with a humor and humility that makes for an extremely pleasurable read."_ - "Scott Anderson, New York Times best-selling author of THE QUIET AMERICANS" From a Gulf War grunt to a full-fledged Marine Major in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Andrew Hesterman saw it all. _Radioman_ offers a highly personal and unfiltered view of the Marine Corps as it transitioned from the post-Vietnam analog Reagan era to the post-9/11 high-tech George W. Bush and Obama years. _Radioman_ begins with Andy as a recruit at boot camp and the ensuing training that leads to formally becoming a Marine. After comm school and the reserves, Andy is called to active duty in 1991 for the Gulf War, where he experiences combat up close in Kuwait. The next personally, professionally, and politically tumultuous decade brings marriage (and divorce), flight school and helicopter missions in Kosovo, the shock of 9/11, another marriage, and children. Andy's journey culminates as an officer in Iraq, where he directs air support for the Marines in Fallujah. Co-authored by Robert Einaudi, a close friend of Hesterman's since high school, _Radioman_ provides an honest and vivid military portrait of the Marine Corps and the modern US military seen through the experiences of one Marine.
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"An honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone. When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the "war on terror" was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man's personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed"--Amazon

• Introduction
• Executive summary
• Demand for U.S. amphibious forces
• Supply of U.S. amphibious forces
• Pacific allies and partners : amphibious capabilities and development
• Assessment of U.S., ally, and partner amphibious capabilities
• Meeting the demands
• Recommendations.

"Investments in amphibious capabilities by U.S. partners and allies in the Asia Pacific is altering the range of capabilities available in that region. It is also changing the types and frequency of exercises partner nations seek to undertake with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team. This study examines ally- and partner-nation investments in amphibious capabilities, how those capabilities will impact demand for U.S. forces, and the range of U.S. amphibious fleet composites to meet the changing demand"--Publisher's web site.

• Foreword Part One: Formative Years, 1915-1941
• Chapter 1: A Youngster from Georgia
• Chapter 2: Second Lieutenant Raymond G. Davis
• Chapter 3: The Old Breed: Special Weapons Battalion Part Two: World War II, 1941 - 1945 Central Pacific: Guadalcanal
• Chapter 1: "War"
• Chapter 2: Operation Watchtower
• Chapter 3: Landing and Defense
• Chapter 4: Cactus Air Force
• Chapter 5: Japanese Ground and Air Counterattack Southwest Pacific: Cape Gloucester - Peleliu
• Chapter 1: The Green Inferno
• Chapter 2: A Steamy Pest-Hole Peleliu
• Chapter 1: Breakwater of the Pacific
• Chapter 2: Death at the High Water Line
• Chapter 3: A Ferocious and Wily Foe
• Chapter 4: Bloody Nose Ridge
• Chapter 5: Pope's Hill
• Chapter 6: Shot to Pieces
• Chapter 7: Homeward Bound 1st Provisional Brigade: Guam
• Chapter 1: "Pretty Good Plumber" Part Three: Korea (Land of the Morning Calm)
• Chapter 1: North Korea Strikes
• Chapter 2: Send in the Marines
• Chapter 3: Chinese Volunteers
• Chapter 4: Out on a Limb
• Chapter 5: Toktong Ridge Runners Chapter: 6: "Retreat Hell" Chapter: 7: The Great Pohang Guerrilla Hunt Chapter: 8: "Above and Beyond Chapter: 9: Peacetime Part Four: Vietnam
• Chapter 1: Provisional Corps Vietnam (PCV)
• Chapter 2: Taking Command, 3rd Marine Division
• Chapter 3: Assault from the Sky
• Chapter 4: Swing Force
• Chapter 5: Pacification: Winning Hearts and Minds Part Five: Post Vietnam
• Chapter 1: Post of the Corps: Marine Corps Development and Education Command
• Chapter 2: Retirement Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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"...Ray Davis was a hardened combat veteran. This was brought home to me one day while visiting a remote Army firebase in the jungle south of Khe Sanh. As the two of us strode along the jungle pathway, Davis suddenly stopped and peered intently into the thick green foliage. I suspected danger, brought my rifle up, and slipped off the safety. After a few moments, the general turned and casually remarked, "Dick, this reminds me of a command post I had on Guadalcanal." I mumbled, "Yes, sir, " and surreptitiously fingered the safety to the "on" position. "Christ, " I thought in awe, "I was only two years old at the time of Guadalcanal. This is the old man's third war!" - Dick Camp, introduction to book "A well-crafted biography of an important Marine commander. It illustrates well through Davis' career the Marine Corps of the mid-Twentieth century." - Paul Westermeyer, Historian A native of Georgia, Raymond Davis joined the Marine Corps after university and would go on to serve in three wars and be decorated for gallantry several times including the Medal of Honor for his actions at Chosin where his leadership saved countless American lives. He retired as a four-star general after 33 years in the corps. Dick Camp, Marine veteran and historian, weaves memoirs, first-hand accounts, and his own personal memories of General Davis in this first biography of this archetypal "Old Breed" Marine.
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• Newtown Square
• Philadelphia
• Guantánamo
• Luzon, Philippines
• Northern China
• Samar, Philippines
• The Isthmus
• Subic Bay, Philippines
• Nicaragua
• The Canal Zone
• Veracruz
• Haiti
• Dominican Republic
• Port-au-Prince
• France
• Philadelphia
• Shanghai
• America

"A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power-and how its legacies shape our world today-told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went-serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism." Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world-from China to Guantánamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal-and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget"-- Provided by publisher

• Acknowledgments Preface: Even Heroes Have Heroes One-An Epic Moment Two-The Making of the Man Three-Marine Recruit Four-The Boxer Rebellion Five-Peking Siege Six-Love in War Seven-Sea Soldier Eight-Vera Cruz Nine-Haiti Ten-Dominican Republic Eleven-Over There Twelve-Chateau Thierry Thirteen-Belleau Wood Fourteen-The Third Medal of Honor Fifteen-Soissons Sixteen-St. Mihiel Seventeen-Blanc Mont Ridge Eighteen- Meuse-Argonne Nineteen-Final Years Twenty-Daly's Legacy Sergeant Major Daniel J. Daly's Medals and Citations Chapter Notes Bibliography Index.
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More than 40 million Americans have served in the U.S. military during wartime. Only 3500 have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Of these, three have received the medal twice. One was recommended for it a third time. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel J. Daly was an unlikely hero at five feet, six inches tall and 132 pounds. What he lacked in size he made up for in grit. He received his first Medal of Honor for single-handedly holding off enemy attacks during China's Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the second for his daring, one-man action during an ambush in Haiti in 1915. He was nominated for (but not awarded) an unprecedented third medal in World War I for his valor at Belleau Wood, where he led a charge against the German stronghold with the battle cry, "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" This first full-length biography presents a detailed examination of a Marine Corps legend.
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"A memoir of the author's journey to becoming a fighter pilot; her twenty years in the military; and the events that led to her decision to run for U.S. Senate"-- Provided by publisher
Fascinated with fighter jets at an early age, McGrath's devastation at learning that a federal law prohibited women from flying in combat fueled her determination to do just that-- and then, to help change the laws to improve the lives of all Americans. Here she recounts her experiences flying in the Marines, her combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, her work as an Air Combat Tactics instructor-- and what it was like to finally fly that fighter jet: high-speed, intense, and physically demanding. She then begin a new life chapter in politics: a roller-coaster congressional campaign which she lost by three percentage points; and made the tough decision to run again, in an even bigger, higher-stakes national campaign, against the five-term leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell. -- adapted from jacket

• Foreword Part One: Formative Years, 1915-1941
• Chapter 1: A Youngster from Georgia
• Chapter 2: Second Lieutenant Raymond G. Davis
• Chapter 3: The Old Breed: Special Weapons Battalion Part Two: World War II, 1941 - 1945 Central Pacific: Guadalcanal
• Chapter 1: "War"
• Chapter 2: Operation Watchtower
• Chapter 3: Landing and Defense
• Chapter 4: Cactus Air Force
• Chapter 5: Japanese Ground and Air Counterattack Southwest Pacific: Cape Gloucester - Peleliu
• Chapter 1: The Green Inferno
• Chapter 2: A Steamy Pest-Hole Peleliu
• Chapter 1: Breakwater of the Pacific
• Chapter 2: Death at the High Water Line
• Chapter 3: A Ferocious and Wily Foe
• Chapter 4: Bloody Nose Ridge
• Chapter 5: Pope's Hill
• Chapter 6: Shot to Pieces
• Chapter 7: Homeward Bound 1st Provisional Brigade: Guam
• Chapter 1: "Pretty Good Plumber" Part Three: Korea (Land of the Morning Calm)
• Chapter 1: North Korea Strikes
• Chapter 2: Send in the Marines
• Chapter 3: Chinese Volunteers
• Chapter 4: Out on a Limb
• Chapter 5: Toktong Ridge Runners Chapter: 6: "Retreat Hell" Chapter: 7: The Great Pohang Guerrilla Hunt Chapter: 8: "Above and Beyond Chapter: 9: Peacetime Part Four: Vietnam
• Chapter 1: Provisional Corps Vietnam (PCV)
• Chapter 2: Taking Command, 3rd Marine Division
• Chapter 3: Assault from the Sky
• Chapter 4: Swing Force
• Chapter 5: Pacification: Winning Hearts and Minds Part Five: Post Vietnam
• Chapter 1: Post of the Corps: Marine Corps Development and Education Command
• Chapter 2: Retirement Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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"...Ray Davis was a hardened combat veteran. This was brought home to me one day while visiting a remote Army firebase in the jungle south of Khe Sanh. As the two of us strode along the jungle pathway, Davis suddenly stopped and peered intently into the thick green foliage. I suspected danger, brought my rifle up, and slipped off the safety. After a few moments, the general turned and casually remarked, "Dick, this reminds me of a command post I had on Guadalcanal." I mumbled, "Yes, sir, " and surreptitiously fingered the safety to the "on" position. "Christ, " I thought in awe, "I was only two years old at the time of Guadalcanal. This is the old man's third war!" - Dick Camp, introduction to book "A well-crafted biography of an important Marine commander. It illustrates well through Davis' career the Marine Corps of the mid-Twentieth century." - Paul Westermeyer, Historian A native of Georgia, Raymond Davis joined the Marine Corps after university and would go on to serve in three wars and be decorated for gallantry several times including the Medal of Honor for his actions at Chosin where his leadership saved countless American lives. He retired as a four-star general after 33 years in the corps. Dick Camp, Marine veteran and historian, weaves memoirs, first-hand accounts, and his own personal memories of General Davis in this first biography of this archetypal "Old Breed" Marine.
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• Publisher's message
• Introduction
• China Marine history
• China stories
• China Marine biographies
• Index

These are the intense combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu, Baghdad and Mosul to directing special operations in an impossibly complex fight against a formidable foe. The journey culminates in the story's centerpiece: the fight against ISIS - one which finally seems to make sense for the soldiers, sailors and Marines involved, in which the author is able to use the lessons of his harsh apprenticeship to lead the SOF task force under his command to hasten the Caliphate's eventual demise. Milburn combines self-effacing candor with the insight and skill of a natural story teller to make the reader experience what it's like to lead those who fight America's wars.
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• Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Muleshoe to Texas A & M: Growing Up in Texas, 1920s and 1930s; Chapter Two: The Old Corps: USMC Boot Camp, 1940-1941; Chapter Three: Eighth Marines: Preparing to Fight; Chapter Four: Exotic Samoa: Defending the Southern Lifeline; Chapter Five: Guadalcanal: We Were Living Like Animals; Photo Gallery; Chapter Six: New Zealand: Paradise Found; Chapter Seven: Tarawa: Hell Realized; Chapter Eight: Hawaii: Recovery and Preparing for the Next Show; Chapter Nine: Saipan: "We Were There to Kill Japs"; Chapter Ten: Death Came Near: Wounded and Recovery.

In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37 mm cannons ashore, each weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, through half a mile of bullet-laced surf to get to an island where the killing never stopped. His was the only platoon to get its guns ashore and into action that first day. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75 mm halftracks, but he was riddled with shrapnel from an enemy artillery shell that took him out of the war. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew upon wartime letters home, and provided annotations to the narrative of this young Marine infantry officer, a job that had an extremely low survival potential.
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Major General Smedley Butler is one of the most decorated Marines of all time and is a legend among the Corps. Coming from a background of privilege, he became a Marine to prove his worth. Through conflicts like the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Banana Wars, and the War to End All Wars, he helped define what the Marine Corps is today. Smedley begins in the Summer of 1932. Butler is retired from the Marines and has lost his bid to be a Pennsylvania senator. When he is invited to speak at the Bonus Army encampment in Washington DC, he arrives early to mingle with the other veterans, who press him for stories about his legendary exploits. How did he win his Medals of Honour? What was it like in China? Smedley is a man in his element as he recalls his toughest scrapes to an eager Audience of World War I veterans, who we discover have a few war stories of their own.
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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 organisation 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.
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• I sign up and free a handsome Marine to fight
• Camp Lejeune, here I come!
• Heads I win
• Vicki's temperature hits high C, and we nearly pass out
• We learn the facts of life from A to B
• Right on the chaplain's doorstep
• Uniforms and bangs
• My sixth day--and I could win the war single handed
• We drill for gas and I come up for air
• HALP! Who goes there?
• I graduate, and draw the last straw
• Lock the doors! My eyelash curler is gone!
• Mops, brooms, dustpans, and Rip van Winkle
• Off to our nation's capitol