Being a huge David Simon fan I watched Generation Kill. I was amazed and amused by the captain of the marines. I Wikipedia’d him and decided I needed to read this book. It was stated as one of the military books.
I listened to it at the gym and long walks.
I was amazed by his story. From being in Dartmouth Learning classics. To being an officer with the marines. Learning about 9/11 and being thrown into Afghanistan learning how to lead a group of guys from all over America with all walks of life.
These guys looked up to him who was just a kid. He had to make tactical decisions and got all his guys home. It’s not in awhile you decide you admire someone with the way they lead their lives.
It was interesting to see that sometimes he wouldn’t say anything to orders he doesn’t agree with. But there were times as they were ordered to shoot at someone. It being a kid. The kid was going to die. The command wasn’t it going to do anything they took action to save this kids life. The battle parts were invigorating scary. You see him go back to his preparation and how to lead under pressure.
You see him compare much as he sees to the classics he once read. You see as a 3rd generation in the military and how his grandpas lucky goes how stays with him. A kid with a calling to lead who took his brothers to Babylon. Overall great listen. He narrates it himself.
by moneysingh300