Making the Corps

Description

Author: Ricks, Thomas E.

Publisher: Scribner

Pub Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book:  Good to Very Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds. Appears unread.  Dust Jacket: Good to Very Good.  No chips, edgewear, scuffing.  In mylar

Notes: First edition, first printing.  “And yet the changes the commandant is making in boot camp–however much they are needed–can only make Marine boot camp even more of an oddity in American society, a place that is sometimes brutal, but where standards are enforced, where unquestioning teamwork is the rule rather than the exception, and where no excuses are accepted.  As a rite of passage, there are few if any other places like it left in American society…” (p. 264), “To be in the Corps is to be in a state of mind that dictates one’s relationship to the rest of the world” (p. 238).  You don’t JOIN the Marines.  You BECOME one.           Semper Fidelis