This book is great story telling by Major Ralph Stoney Bates Sr., USMC (Ret), an accomplished and respected Marine, instructor on military and naval subjects at Furman University's Life-Long Learning Program (OLLI), and a previously published contributing author and editor of "Short Rations For Marines." It is, in a word-lively It's not at all boring or dull reading; rather it brings history alive. It immediately sparks your interest, and paints a vivid word picture describing the Marine Corps in a manner that most people have never been so accustomed. The reader will simply want more, and...