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Swift, Silent, and Deadly

Author : Bruce Meyers
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612515029
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Swift, Silent, and Deadly written by Bruce Meyers and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experienced reconnaissance Marine officer, Bruce Meyers paints a colorful and accurate picture of the special recon landings that preceded every major amphibious operation in the Pacific War. Credited with saving countless lives, these Marine scouts went in stealthily at night from submarines, PT boats, Catalinas, and high-speed transports. Swift, silent, and deadly, they landed on more than two hundred enemy beaches, from Tarawa to Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa to collect intelligence on potential landing sites. They measured water depths, charted coral heads, gathered soil samples, sought out enemy locations, and took photographs. In short, they obtained information vital to the success of American operations in the Pacific. This book represents the first time World War II Marine recon landings have been chronicled. Meyers explains that only the story of their contributions in later wars has been previously documented. His book describes the start of it all, letting readers join the men as they slip over the sides of their rubber boats and make their way inland. Only now can the public appreciate the accomplishments of these daring and intrepid Marines.

Swift, Silent and Deadly

Author : Michael J Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781962677257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Swift, Silent and Deadly written by Michael J Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swift, Silent, and Deadly: Recon Marines tells the story of Recon Marine heroes in Vietnam. Many of the men covered in the book are no longer with us. Some were casualties of the war. Others just haven't survived the years that have passed since the end of the war. There are still plenty around to tell their story, however, and some of those are included in this book. This book contains stories of U.S. Marines who performed reconnaissance duties in Vietnam during the war there. The duty was hazardous in that the operated in small units, usually a seven-man team, in areas held by enemy forces: Viet-Cong and/or North Vietnam Regular Army. In so far as possible, I've included background of the men during their youth. I hope that today's youth will consider them heroes to emulate.

United States Marine Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War

Author : Leo J. Daugherty III
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650136
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book United States Marine Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War written by Leo J. Daugherty III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of U.S. Marine Force and Battalion Reconnaissance from its formation in 1898 through its operations during the Vietnam War (1963-1971), this book provides insight into Force Recon's selection, training and deployment. Emphasis on actions with the South Vietnamese ARVN highlights important lessons for today's Special Forces community, illustrating the inter-service cooperation of Recon operations. Firsthand accounts of Marines who served are included, along with photographs, maps and appendices.

Silent Swift Deadly

Author : Norman VanCor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628062984
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Silent Swift Deadly written by Norman VanCor and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story chronicles VanCor's missions into the jungle with his four team members in "Ringlet." Countless missions in harm's way, five Marines would have to find the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), gather intelligence, break away to a helicopter rendezvous and return to base camp to report their findings. They ventured into the DMZ and beyond, and into the jungle's grip. Some missions were successful, others would end in fierce firefights and men would die.

Swift, Silent, and Deadly

Author : Bruce F. Meyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612515038
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Swift, Silent, and Deadly written by Bruce F. Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experienced reconnaissance Marine officer, Bruce Meyers paints a colorful and accurate picture of the special recon landings that preceded every major amphibious operation in the Pacific War. Credited with saving countless lives, these Marine scouts went in stealthily at night from submarines, PT boats, Catalinas, and high-speed transports. Swift, silent, and deadly, they landed on more than two hundred enemy beaches, from Tarawa to Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa to collect intelligence on potential landing sites. They measured water depths, charted coral heads, gathered soil samples, sought out enemy locations, and took photographs. In short, they obtained information vital to the success of American operations in the Pacific. This book represents the first time World War II Marine recon landings have been chronicled. Meyers explains that only the story of their contributions in later wars has been previously documented. His book describes the start of it all, letting readers join the men as they slip over the sides of their rubber boats and make their way inland. Only now can the public appreciate the accomplishments of these daring and intrepid Marines.

Swift, Silent and Deadly: Recon Marines in Vietnam

Author : Michael Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520610757
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Swift, Silent and Deadly: Recon Marines in Vietnam written by Michael Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine being one of a 7-man team in the middle of a jungle where any person you might encounter will try to kill you. This is enemy territory, inhabited by an unknown number of enemy combatants. You might encounter 1 or 2 of the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese Army or just as easily 50 or more. In addition, there is the danger of man-eating tigers and poisonous snakes!Your mission is to find the enemy without them finding you. You are to report their position so that artillery batteries, bombers or helicopter gunships can destroy them without risking the lives of infantrymen in a hazardous jungle assault. You must keep quiet lest you be detected. The brush is so thick it's hard not snap twigs or crunch brush. You find a trail; but you can't walk on it because it may be booby-trapped with land mines. What sort of men would willingly undertake such a mission?Swift, Silent & Deadly tells the story of Recon Marine heroes in Vietnam. Many of the men covered in the book are no longer with us. Some were casualties of war. Others just haven't survived the years that have passed since the end of the war. There are still plenty around to tell their story, however, and some of those are included in this book

Voices of the Foreign Legion

Author : Adrian D. Gilbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629140929
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Foreign Legion written by Adrian D. Gilbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Foreign Legion has built a reputation as one of the world’s most formidable and colorful military institutions. Established as a means of absorbing foreign troublemakers, the Legion spearheaded French colonialism in North Africa during the nineteenth century. Accepting volunteers from all parts of the world, the Legion acquired an aura of mystery and a less-than-enviable reputation for extreme brutality within its ranks. Voices of the Foreign Legion explores how the Legion selects its recruits, their native lands, and why these warriors seek a life full of hardship and danger. It analyzes the Legion’s brutal attitude toward discipline, questions why desertion has been a perennial problem, and assesses the Legion’s remarkable military achievements since its formation in the year 1831. This is the real story of the Legion, featuring firsthand accounts from the men who have fought in its ranks. Its scope ranges from the conquest of the colonies in Africa and the Far East through the horrors of the two world wars, to the bitter, but ultimately hopeless, battle to maintain France’s far-flung imperial possessions. The story is brought fully up-to-date with accounts and anecdotes from those contemporary foreign legionnaires who continue to fight for French interests around the globe. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Kill Decision

Author : Daniel Suarez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451417704
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Kill Decision written by Daniel Suarez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist and a soldier must join forces when combat drones zero in on targets on American soil in this gripping technological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez. Linda McKinney studies the social behavior of insects—which leaves her entirely unprepared for the day her research is conscripted to help run an unmanned and automated drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into a faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention. Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power. But as enigmatic forces press the advantage, and death rains down from above, it may already be too late to save mankind from destruction.

The Boys in Blue White Dress

Author : William F. Lee
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452029504
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Boys in Blue White Dress written by William F. Lee and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few Americans walk away unmoved from a Friday Evening Parade at the Marine Barracks, 8th and "I" Sts, SE, Washington, DC. It's the oldest Post of the Corps. By visiting The Barracks, President Kennedy became the first President to do so since Thomas Jefferson in 1801. This brought about a special relationship with The Barracks' Marines. A bond that was brought to a tragic end by a sniper's bullet in November 1963. Lieutenant Barney Quinn tells little known details of the Death Watch at the casket and his inner most private thoughts. While on this watch, he also reflects on other ceremonies, memories and moments, and of the rowdy behavior of these rakish "Boys in Blue White Dress." These stand tall, look sharp Marines at their roguish best created a work hard, play hard life style similar to the yesteryear Corps' Leathernecks. Join Barney and the Boys in Blue White Dress. Walk in their ceremonial shoes.

Author : Jerry Nedwick
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449010016
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book written by Jerry Nedwick and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hunt It, Clean It, Cook It, Eat It

Author : Haley Heathman
Publisher : BHC Press
ISBN 13 : 1643971492
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Hunt It, Clean It, Cook It, Eat It written by Haley Heathman and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Field-to-Table Guide to Bagging More Game, Cleaning it Like a Pro, and Cooking Wild Game Meals Even Non-Hunters Will Love Wild game hunting and cooking enthusiast Haley Heathman shares her journey into the sport along with practical hunting advice, tips, and informative how-to recipes to “tame the game” out of meat in this easy hunting and cooking guide. Big game, waterfowl, and upland birds can be tricky to hunt and even trickier to make delicious for dinner. With details on how to ensure you’re ready for the hunt, how to chase and clean your prey, and how to prepare it so guests are impressed, Haley Heathman will have you out in the field in no time. Confused on how to hunt and prepare upland birds? New to plucking a duck? Unfamiliar with calling deer? Haley covers it all. When you come back from the field, choose an easy but decadent recipe that will enhance the natural flavors of the meat without any of the typical game flavor that turns so many hunters and diners away. Take the mystery out of hunting and cooking wild game one species at a time with Haley Heathman.

Deeply Dug in

Author : Robert L. Barth
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826331823
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Deeply Dug in written by Robert L. Barth and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years ago R. L. Barth was a Marine patrol leader in the First Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam. Today he is a poet's poet who articulates the harsh realities and ironies of war in the style of the great classical satirists. Barth writes about Vietnam, but his soldier's take on the war is startlingly applicable to the conflicts of the twenty-first century or to any war that happens to be going on. "I never once saw dying eyes / That were not stunned or shattered by surprise." That is just as it is, never mind all the dulce et decorum exhortations of politicians, who today as always clamor to kill us all. In this slender but rich collection of poems, R. L. Barth proves himself a worthy descendant of Martial and Archilochus, lobbing grenades at what Kenneth Rexroth called the Social Lie, capturing moments of grace and disgrace in combat, and locating the Homeric nobility of ordinary soldiers under fire. As he does, he honors the language. Read him, eyes wide open, and understand."--Gregory McNamee, editor of The Desert Reader "An inventive and resourceful poet. . . . very discreet . . . his lines are built out of images balanced by concepts, each giving weight to the other. . . . Poet or not, Barth was in charge of an elite fighting group that stayed out longer than other units. . . . Many died, including a friend of Barth's memorialized in 'Elegy for a Dead Friend,' one of the best war poems in English."--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

Special Ops Fitness Training

Author : Mark De Lisle
Publisher : Ulysses Press
ISBN 13 : 1569755825
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Special Ops Fitness Training written by Mark De Lisle and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2006-12-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced by more than two hundred step-by-step photographs, a rigorous fitness program, based on the workout routines used by elite American military troops, includes a workout routine that incorporates warm-ups, stretching, upper body, lower body, cardio, running, swimming, goal-setting, and motivation. Original.

Fortune Favors the Brave

Author : Bruce F. Meyer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312996802
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Fortune Favors the Brave written by Bruce F. Meyer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their Job Was To Get Inside Enemy Territory. And Be Ready To Fight Their Way Back Out... At the end of World War II, when daring marine reconnaissance units made a life-and-death difference in island warfare in the Pacific, a secret unit was formed inside the military. With courageous men risking their lives, Test Unit 1 experimented with new ways of inserting marines behind enemy lines-by sea and by land-and then getting them out again. As America barreled towards a confrontation in Indochina and a new era of warfare, First Force Recon was born... This is the untold, inside story of a super elite reconnaissance force-U.S. Special Operations Forces who practiced clandestine insertion and extraction by submarine, jet aircraft and helicopter, using tools and techniques that had never been tried before. Strapping you in the harness of a HALO parachute, launching from the torpedo room of a submerged submarine or climbing the extraction rig of a hovering marine chopper, Fortune Favors the Brave is a firsthand account of what it was like to build a new strike force from the ground up... to make sure that the next time America fought a war, Force Recon would be there. "A superb job...this book fills a void that needed to be filled." -Major Bruce "Doc" Norton, USMC (Ret.)

Up Close and Impersonal

Author : Richard J. Gilchrist
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450215416
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Up Close and Impersonal written by Richard J. Gilchrist and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillip Givens is one of the few who possess the unique psychological skills to take human life without remorse. During the height of the Vietnam War, Givens is assigned to a Marine recon unit where he and a few elite others are provided chance after chance to practice their deadly art. After three consecutive tours of combat, Sgt. Givens has lived by the recon motto-Swift, Silent, Deadly-but unfortunately as a civilian now must live with the label of assassin. When a mysterious man summons Givens to a centuries-old estate in Switzerland, he presents him with a proposition that will change his life forever. As a mental game of international intrigue evolves from their ominous encounter, Givens contemplates the deadly undertaking he has been asked to perform. When Givens is pitted against others in a continuously changing world of global corporate power, he soon discovers that family bonds, friendships, and relationships-of-the-heart are not as they seem. As lines of loyality are drawn and crossed, there is no question that Givens is a cold-blooded killer who has become a pawn in a complex game of corporate psychological chess.

Cassell's New Popular Educator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cassell's New Popular Educator written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Powder

Author : Jeremy Evans
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803234112
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Powder written by Jeremy Evans and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture--a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: "Ski as much as possible." His snowboarding suffered when he left for a job in the Portland area; and when, at twenty-six, he suffered a stroke, he reexamined his priorities, quit his job, moved back to Tahoe, and threw himself into snowboarding. But while he had been away, the culture had changed. This book is Evans's paean to the disappearing culture of the ski bum. A fascinating look at a world far removed from the larger culture, it is also a curious account of a passion for powder and what its disappearance means. Evans looks at several prominent ski towns in the West (including Crested Butte, Jackson Hole, Telluride, Lake Tahoe, Park City, and Mammoth) and the ski bums who either flourished or fled. He chronicles the American West transformed by rising real estate costs, an immigrant workforce, misguided values, and corporate-owned resorts. The story he tells is that of quintessentially American characters--rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their own path--and of the glories and pitfalls their lifestyle presents.