Radioman: Twenty-Five Years in the Marine Corps: From Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom
"Both gripping and honest, Radioman is also told with a humor and humility that makes for an extremely pleasurable read." -- Scott Anderson, New York Times best-selling author of "The Quiet…
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"Both gripping and honest, Radioman is also told with a humor and humility that makes for an extremely pleasurable read." -- Scott Anderson, New York Times best-selling author of "The Quiet Americans"From a Gulf War grunt to a full-fledged Marine Major in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Andrew Hesterman saw it all. Radioman offers a highly personal and unfiltered view of the Marine Corps as it transitioned from the post-Vietnam analog Reagan era to the post-9/11 high-tech George W. Bush and Obama years.Radioman begins with Andy as a recruit at boot camp and the ensuing training that leads to formally becoming a Marine. After comm school and the reserves, Andy is called to active duty in 1991 for the Gulf War, where he experiences combat up close in Kuwait. The next personally, professionally, and politically tumultuous decade brings marriage
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