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LOON: A MARINE STORY By Jack McLean Ballantine Books/Presidio Press, $25, 244 pages REVIEWED BY JOHN WEISMAN June 1968 was a month of tectonic upheaval. June 3, radical feminist Valerie Solanas ...
Books About Joining the Marine Corps Gen. Charles Krulak, president of Birmingham Southern College, proudly displays his memories of time served as a Marine officer in his office.
We asked a few salty Recon Marine veterans which books they recommend. All It Takes: Become a Recon Marine “All It Takes” by Travis Nardi unpacks the rigors of earning the title of Recon Marine.
So, just ahead of General Chennault’s efforts to get him into the new 10th Air Force, U.S.A., Greg Boyington beat it out of China and applied for reinstatement in the U.S. Marine Corps.
THE EDGE OF THE SEA (276 pp.)—Rachel Carson—Houghton Mifflin ($3.95).Author and Marine Biologist Rachel Carson has moved in from the vasty deeps of The Sea Around Us and made a beachhead on ...
The Marine Corps overhauled the C ommandant’s Reading List in 2020 in a modernization effort to become more relevant to the modern-day Marine. As part of the process, the Corps, for the first ...
On Saturday night, Calvert County Marine Museum volunteer Emily Bzdyk was collecting fossils at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland when she made a discovery that could help write history books on marine ...