The Yellow Footprints to Hell and Back: The Starting Point for Every Marine, a Drill Instructors' Story of Life in Marine Corps Boot Camp During the Vietnam War. - Rilegato

Stoner, Gregg

 
9780595501205: The Yellow Footprints to Hell and Back: The Starting Point for Every Marine, a Drill Instructors' Story of Life in Marine Corps Boot Camp During the Vietnam War.
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0595501206 ISBN 13: 9780595501205
Casa editrice: Iuniverse Inc, 2008

Sinossi

In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, there were two ways of becoming a Marine-being drafted and choosing to join. Author Gregg Stoner, a baby boomer in disagreement with the war, joined the Marine Corps as a protest against the draft and with a strong desire to avoid fighting in Vietnam. Stoner's first enlistment began just after the Tet Offensive and was during a time when most Marines were sent to combat. But he was the only soldier from his platoon of eighty-five to remain stateside. The Yellow Footprints to Hell and Back details Stoner's life in the military-from a private in boot camp to working as a sergeant drill master. Beginning with the first grueling experiences as a new recruit to the immense pride at graduation, Stoner shares his inner thoughts at what it took to become a Marine. He had joined the Marines to avoid fighting overseas, but he gained much more than he had imagined. Filled with abundant anecdotes, this personal memoir relays the interesting and, at times unbelievable, stories of the Marine Corps. It conveys the feelings and attitudes that dominated this special time in American history.

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L'autore

Gregg Stoner spent two enlistments in the Marines during the Vietnam War and lived fives years in a boot camp environment. His first assignment was as a drill instructor, replacing his own drill instructor. He is currently the secretary of the Crow Crawford Chapter of the Drill Instructors Association.

Product Description

Book by Gregg Stoner

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Editore
Iuniverse Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0595501206
ISBN 13 
9780595501205
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
180
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780595484225: THE YELLOW FOOTPRINTS TO HELL AND BACK: The starting point for every Marine: a drill instructors' story of life in Marine Corps boot camp during the Vietnam War.

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0595484220 ISBN 13:  9780595484225
Casa editrice: iUniverse, 2008
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