Download or read book Ooorah written by Gregg Stoner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Paxton knew he wanted to be a marine the day his family buried his dad, a marine who had been killed while fighting the Japanese during the Pacific campaign of World War II. His drill instructor in boot camp had a significant impact on him and would later be the focus of the movie The DI. His early years in the marines formed the basis for his successful career; he twice served as a drill instructor and had two tours of duty in Vietnam as a grunt. His impact on all who he came in contact with was evident in the drive that pushed Ken Norton, his former recruit, to become the Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World. Paxton received the Bronze Star for heroic actions in Vietnam and was also awarded several Purple Heart Medals for wounds he received in battle. Having achieved the rank of sergeant major, he retired from active duty after thirty years; still, he proudly says, “Retired, but still active!” He has become an icon in the marines and is one of the most well-known marines in the San Diego area.
Download or read book PARARESCUE ITS a FINE MADNESS written by Martin F. Caldwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest days of the earliest wars, there have been those Who would place themselves in harms way to save the lives of both comrades and total strangers. None of them, however, have been as dedicated to saving others pararescue jumpers. In the mid 1960s, airmen Joe Garvy and Lee Davis have entered training, along with many other recruits, to become pararescue jumpers. Being a PJ will mean constantly putting themselves into life-or-death situations in the jungles of Vietnam—and that’s assuming they can even make it through the training. This novel follows a group of young men as they make the journey into the career field of pararescue. During this all-consuming time, they discover how far they can push themselves as they complete eighteen months of training and become members of the pararescue brotherhood. They graduate from training dedicated to the simple creed: these things we do that others may live.
Download or read book Echoes from the Halls written by Gregg Stoner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MMarines and Navy Corpsmen tell their unique stories about experiences they had during their careers. Many of their careers were brought short by debilitating wounds received during battles or from land mines. Some have received Purple Hearts for injuries, and many had to return to battle after healing. The stories are about daily life in the Marines and Navythe unique and little things that make life interesting to men who at any moment could be called to action to hot-zone somewhere in the world. Most of the stories in this book come from the web site The Halls of Montezuma, a site designed as a meeting place for Marines and Navy Corpsmen. The stories reflect their feelings about what they did and how it impacted their lives. The stories range from serious to humorous. All wrote from the heart.
Download or read book Still Coming written by Joseph Flynn and published by Stray Dog Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rifleman Doctor written by Warren S. Gilbert, MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren S. Gilbert grew up on the streets of Chicago, and no one expected him to accomplish much. Even so, his athleticism paved the way for him to attend Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and his intellect led him to Rush Medical College. While most people would have been happy with graduating and becoming a successful physician, he grew bored and moved to Nevada for a fresh start. But as time passed, he sought more meaning out of life - and he found it when various branches of the armed services began calling. With his country seeking help from qualified doctors and terrorism on the rise, he joined the US Naval Reserve. But everything changed when terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. What was supposed to have been a detour turned into a career that would lead to some of his most memorable and meaningful moments. Join Gilbert as he looks back at serving his country, fighting terrorists, and excelling as a member of the US Naval Reserve and then as a physician serving with the Marine Corps. It was all part of pulling double duty as a rifleman and doctor.
Download or read book Spiritual Birth written by Jomy Nallos and published by Jomy Nallos. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior then this book is for you! If you believe in your heart that Christ died for your sins, was buried, and was raised back to life on the third day and you have been baptized in water showing your decision to follow him from now on then this book is definitely for you. You will understand what it means to be born again and more! You will learn about your new spiritual nature. Know the difference between your new nature now from the one before you belong to Christ. Why you have to be born again. Why you have to be baptized. The new creation – what it means. New paradigm – how it affects the way you live. New lifestyle – why you do what you do in Christ. The true meaning of eternal life. The Holy Spirit – the presence of God in you. How to make the word of God real in your day to day living. What it means by Jesus being your Lord and Savior. Amazing testimonies of God demonstrating his love through miracles and powerful encounters. You will learn sound biblical principles and powerful truths that work. You will understand that your new life in Christ is more than just a creed – it is a new reality that will transform your life according to God’s purpose in you and experience what God has freely given you in Jesus. This book will point you to the life-Giver, the Eternal Life; the person your heart has been longing for – Jesus Christ! You will get to know a friendship that’s better than life and enjoy a relationship that transcends time, culture, gender, and personality. Your life will never be the same again as Christ manifests God’s reality in you!
Download or read book Ooorah written by Gregg Stoner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Paxton knew he wanted to be a marine the day his family buried his dad, a marine who had been killed while fighting the Japanese during the Pacific campaign of World War II. His drill instructor in boot camp had a significant impact on him and would later be the focus of the movie The DI. His early years in the marines formed the basis for his successful career; he twice served as a drill instructor and had two tours of duty in Vietnam as a grunt. His impact on all who he came in contact with was evident in the drive that pushed Ken Norton, his former recruit, to become the Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World. Paxton received the Bronze Star for heroic actions in Vietnam and was also awarded several Purple Heart Medals for wounds he received in battle. Having achieved the rank of sergeant major, he retired from active duty after thirty years; still, he proudly says, "Retired, but still active!" He has become an icon in the marines and is one of the most well-known marines in the San Diego area.
Download or read book Lasting Visions With the 7th Marines in Vietnam 1970 written by Frederick Fenwick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Vietnam War Series. A coming of age story of a farm boy who grew up in the heartland of Kentucky, who enlisted in the Marines in 1969 and experienced Marine boot camp at Parris Island where domineering drill instructors took away the youth in the author and instilled the discipline, training, and motivation necessary to survive in combat. Arriving in Vietnam in March 1970 he was assigned to 3rd Platoon, Mike Co., 3rd Bn., 7th Marines. His story tells of the bravery, camaraderie, and esprit de corps of this Marine infantry squad. Fred's true accounts take the reader into the jungles, rice paddies, villages, and mountains of Vietnam. Lasting Visions takes you to ground zero of the Vietnam War. 33 photos, map.
Download or read book This is Amiko Do You Copy written by Natsuko Imamura and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and moving novella about a misunderstood neurodivergent girl from one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers, the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt A sensitive and tender depiction of belonging and neurodivergence, perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman and the off-kilter novels of Ottessa Moshfegh Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or peeking through the sliding doors at her mother’s calligraphy class, her curious, exuberant nature mostly meets with confusion. When her mother falls into a depression and her brother begins spending all his time with a motorcycle gang, Amiko is left increasingly alone to navigate a world where she doesn’t quite fit. Subtle, tender and moving, This is Amiko shows us life through the eyes of a unique, irrepressible, neurodivergent young character. Praise for The Woman in the Purple Skirt: “[It] will keep you firmly in its grip.” — Oyinkan Braithwaite, bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer “The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith.” — Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get in Trouble “A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness.” — Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
Download or read book Fangs Claws and Camouflage written by Frances Applequist and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biological pandemic has left the world infested with zombies, and no one, human or supernatural, is safe. National and military leaders are desperate to find a weapon that will fight the scourge, but they don't expect to form allegiances, uneasy as they may be, with dark and mysterious forces. Vampire Avianna and her eternal partner, Joseph; werewolf soulmates Kristian and Mary; and the powerful witch, Keenu, emerge from the shadows to help the US Marines and militia resist the apocalypse. Keywords: Novel, Fiction, Vampires, Werewolves, Marines, Militia, Witches, Wiccan, Zombies, Horror
Download or read book Marine Recruit written by Herb Brewer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine Recruit: Tears in the Sand is an epic novel of a Marine Corps boot camp (San Diego); a compelling, unabridged account of recruit training as told by the drill instructor. Author of chronicles of a marine rifleman, retired first sergeant, Herb Brewer, USMC, now brings to life this outstanding, all-encompassing, witty, honest, caringly brutal, human, and timeless narrative. Combining two stories into one, he takes you all the way from the grueling view of the recruit to the panoramic mission and perspective of the Drill Instructor. At MCRD, you can count on two things: the recruit is green, the marine drill instructor is legendary. First Sergeant Brewer captures the essence and awareness of what it means to be both. Marine Recruit is a rare and unparalleled look into MCRD. Enter now the revered birthplace of the Marines where every drill instructor was once a recruit.
Download or read book The Moscow Club written by Joseph Finder and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1991. The Cold War is over. Charlie Stone is a brilliant analyst for the CIA who made a name for himself during the height of the Cold War. But today his expertise is needed yet again: A top-secret tape—one that foretells a coup d'état in the Kremlin—has been smuggled out of the Soviet Union by one of a few remaining moles. Stone's assessment of the transcript is two-fold: Not only is a very real, very violent power struggle underway but the plot may be linked to an old mystery involving the imprisonment of Stone's own father. Could a McCarthy-era enemy be trying to send Stone a deadly modern message? Soon Stone finds himself at the center of another conspiracy—framed for a grisly murder. Without proof of his innocence, Stone enters into a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse that leads him across the country, throughout Europe, and finally, to the Soviet Union. There, he will come face to face with a group of Kremlin insiders whose ruthless agenda threatens to disrupt the fragile balance of world power—and leave Stone with nowhere left to run. But before he can thwart a tragedy of epic proportions, he must put a stop to the elusive ways and means of THE MOSCOW CLUB... from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder.
Download or read book Sci Fi Anthology 2015 written by Lori Butler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short stories in this anthology feature hybrid creatures, cyborgs, sorcery, mad scientists, Satan's daughter, a Techno Wizard, rebelling robots, alternate realities, time travel, intergalactic wars, lots of zombies, and much more! The authors have also paid tribute to Star Wars, Mad Max, Star Trek and Harry Potter with some clever fan fiction. Enjoy the crazy, humorous, sad, technical, scary and sometimes disturbing ride you are about to take with this collection.
Download or read book Undaunted written by Tanya Biank and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As she did so provocatively with military spouses in Army Wives, Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today’s military—their professional and personal challenges from the combat zone to the home front... Since 9/11, more than 240,000 women have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan—more than 140 have died there, and they currently make up fourteen percent of the total active-duty forces. Despite advances, today’s servicewomen are constantly pressed to prove themselves, to overcome challenges men never face, and to put the military mission ahead of all other aspects of their lives, particularly marriage and motherhood. In this groundbreaking, insider’s look at the women defending our nation, Tanya Biank brings to light the real issues—of femininity, belonging to an old boys’ club, veiled discrimination, dating, marriage problems, separation from children, questions about life goals, career trajectories, and self-worth—that servicewomen are facing by focusing on four individual stories. Brigadier General Angela Salinas, the Marine Corps’ first Hispanic female general, faces the challenge of commanding an all-male institution. Second Lieutenant Bergan Flanagan finds herself on the frontlines in Afghanistan, serving in the same military police company as her husband. As a marine drill instructor, Sergeant Amy Stokley demands the very best from the recruits at Parris Island. And Major Candice O’Brien deals with deployment to Afghanistan, with two young children and a strained marriage back home. Undaunted is the story of these courageous trailblazers—their struggles, sacrifices, and triumphs in the name of serving the country they love.
Download or read book Slogans written by Steve Pribish and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven-year old Stepha and his little brother Vanya never mistook their Russian village of Unkurda for Eden, but after the Communist revolution in 1917, they found Hell. The two were among the millions of children cast adrift by a succession of soul crushing events. War, revolution, epidemic, and starvation, all conspire to force even the youngest of them to mature beyond their years. The brothers, armed only with the memories of their dead mother and absent father, vow to do more than just survive. They swear a blood oath to reach their dream or die trying. Their dreama far off place they know only as America.
Download or read book Lasting Visions It Comes With The Rank written by Frederick Fenwick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Memoir Series. Fred Fenwick joined the USMC at eighteen. Thirty years later he retired at the highest enlisted rank of Sergeant Major. He reported to Parris Island, SC, in 1969 for recruit training and retired in 1999. In 2010 he published his first non-fiction book titled "Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam 1970." It captured his first year and a half in the Marine Corps. His first book takes you through combat in Vietnam and his subsequent tour in Okinawa and the Orient. "Lasting Visions: It Comes With the Rank" is his second non-fiction book. He has picked up where he left off in his first book and continued through a 30-year Marine Corps career. The author's unique style of storytelling will capture your attention and keep you in suspense. 49 photos.
Download or read book High Alert written by Gregg Stoner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is broken down into two basic parts. Part one is how the Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol makes a difference in people’s lives due to their daily duties as volunteers with the San Diego Police Department. The everyday duties of RSVP’s are described in detail by providing interesting stories about each of the categories of jobs. Gregg and his wife Melody set no limits for their time spent going over-and-above volunteer requirements. Part two is about the special equipped license plate reader car that was used exclusively by the author in finding stolen cars, stolen license plates, and cars wanted for felony crimes. Gregg and Melody spent every available moment of their patrol time seeking stolen cars, and in the process became the most successful of all the RSVP volunteers at finding stolen cars setting a record for stolen car recoveries that will probably never be beat.
