Full name: The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words

Author: Larry Smith Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393329926 0393329925

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 Proud 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. Similar books: Making the Corps by Thomas E. Ricks Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko Armored Cav by Tom Clancy Battle Ready by Tom Clancy Marines by Edwin H. Simmons Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy Fervent by Priscilla Shirer The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad Food For Free by Richard Mabey All That the Rain Promises and More by David Arora Code Complete by Steve McConnell Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker God Will Use This for Good by Max Lucado A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins Where I Am by Billy Graham