Title: The Few and the Proud
First published: 2006
Description: Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this 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. It 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.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Military life, United States. Marine Corps, Interviews, Basic training (Military education), United States, Non-commissioned officers, Military education, United states, marine corps, Armed Forces, Militärausbildung, USA Marine Corps, USA
Places: United States
LC classification: VE24 .S58 2006