Few & The Proud Pa

by Smith,Larry

• ISBN13: 9780393329926
• ISBN10: 0393329925
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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 Ermey, the infamous drill instructor fromFull Metal Jacket. With death-defying accounts relayed from the MCRD in San Diego and the legendary Parris Island,The Few and the Proudis 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. 30 photographs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
The Old Breed: World War II, Korea, and Vietnam	p. 3
Chuck Taliano	p. 5
Recruit Training	p. 16
Iron Mike Mervosh	p. 21
Camp Pendleton	p. 40
Bill Paxton	p. 42
The Known Marine	p. 54
Recruit Training	p. 58
Ed Walls	p. 62
Camp Lejeune	p. 75
Dave Robles	p. 77
Recruit Training	p. 92
Robert Mastrion	p. 97
Eddie Adams	p. 107
Ribbon Creek: Sea Change in the Corps	p. 111
Matthew C. McKeon	p. 114
Morton Janklow	p. 119
James Wheeler	p. 128
Gene Alvarez	p. 134
The Yellow Footprints	p. 143
Marines and the Movies: Image Matters Greatly	p. 149
R. Lee Ermey	p. 155
Mike Malachowsky	p. 165
The Crucible	p. 173
Montford Point: How Blacks Made It into the Marines	p. 179
Gene Doughty	p. 181
Herman Rhett	p. 190
Ellis Cunningham	p. 196
David Dinkins	p. 206
Women Marines: The Fight for Equality	p. 211
Denise Kreuser	p. 213
Doris Kleberger	p. 224
Mary Sue League	p. 229
Jeanne Botwright	p. 235
Christine Henning	p. 242
Counting Cadence	p. 249
Women Counting Cadence	p. 251
The New Breed: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same	p. 253
Rodolfo Rodriguez	p. 255
Clint Kreuser	p. 264
Josh Wylie	p. 273
Rob Bush	p. 282
Will Post	p. 295
Keith Burkepile	p. 305
Men Counting Cadence	p. 321
The Known Marine	p. 323
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