Making the Corps / Thomas E. Ricks ; [with a new afterword by the author].
An inside look at the Marine Corps follows one year in the lives of a single platoon of raw Marine recruits, from their arrival on Parris Island to their first full year as members of the Corps.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781416544500
- ISBN: 141654450X
- Physical Description: 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. edition, 10th anniversary ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2007.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index."Sixty-three men came to Parris Island to become Marines. Not all of them made it. This is the story of Boot Camp Platoon 3086, the Marine Corps, and America"--Cover.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Mogadishu, December 1992 -- Disorientation -- The forming -- Training -- Warrior week -- Ready -- Graduation -- Back in the world -- In the marines -- On American soil -- Parris Island, October 1996.
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- United States. Marine Corps > Military life.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
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