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John Piedmont’s Det One: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, 2003–2006
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
swimmers doing the backstroke toward a waterfall.
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
East Tremont was friends—real friends, not just acquaintances you happened to meet because they took their children to the same playground to which you took your children, or because they belonged to the same PTA as you, but friends whom you had grown up with and were going to grow old with, boys and girls—turned men and women—who knew and
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
“billy’s son robert had a lot of trouble in high school, but then he joined the famous green berets. he straightened out, became a fine young man, and he fought in vietnam.”
kurt vonnegut | slaughterhouse 5 (pg 24)
None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism (Hirsh 2003).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
There was this to know: The Rhode Island branch of the Rosewater family was descended from George Rosewater, younger brother of the infamous Noah. When the Civil War came, George raised a company of Indiana riflemen, marched off with them to join the nearly legendary Black Hat Brigade. Under George's command was Noah's substitute, the Rosewater
... See moreKurt Vonnegut • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
Admiral King “listened with utmost enthusiasm,” wrote Captain James Doyle, Turner’s operations officer, when describing the UDT efforts at Flintlock. “Excellent,” King interrupted in the middle of Doyle’s briefing, “that business of the hydrographic survey at the first possible moment is a pet hobby of mine.” For Turner, however, a unit capable of
... See moreBenjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
The measures she pours are healthy, spilling over the limit, and she gives us a nod, a smile, a small acknowledgement.