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The Proud Bastards: One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam

Helms, E. Michael

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The Proud Bastards: One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam

"In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines -- and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever change him -- and by its end, he would be awarded the Purple Heart Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit Citation, and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry. From the brutality and endurance-straining ordeals of boot camp to the endless horror of combat, Helms paints a vivid, unflinchingly realistic depiction of the lives of Marines in training and under fire. As powerful and compelling a battlefield memoir as any ever written, Helms's ""grunt's-eye"" view of the Vietnam War, the men who fought it, and the mindless chaos that surrounded it, is truly a modern military classic."

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Title of ebook: The Proud Bastards: One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam
ISBN: 9780743498616
Publisher: Pocket Books
Internet download file size: 300 kb
Released online for download: 02-16-2004
Author of eBook: Helms, E. Michael

Proud Bastards

One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam

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Chapter 1

Boot Camp. Parris Island. God, how I had dreamed about that place! Everything I had read and heard about was true. But my romanticized visions of being molded into a United States Marine at the legendary Recruit Training Depot were about to be quickly and rudely transformed into something more closely akin to a nightmare....

Yes, Mikey, there really is a Drill Instructor who jumps aboard the bus to welcome your arrival. Only, his maniacal ranting and raving and the most god-awful foul-mouthed ear-bending cursing you never wanted to hear serve to quickly dispel my notion that this is going to even remotely resemble the adventure that I had envisioned. I think I really screwed up this time!

Hey, there really are yellow footprints on the pavement for us to line up on as we frantically scramble off the bus at the DI's orders. After being unceremoniously shown how to attain something faintly resembling the military posture of attention, and several of the "herd" being reminded somewhat unkindly that the ot ... read full excerpt from The Proud Bastards: One Marine's Journey from Parris Island through the Hell of Vietnam ebook


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