01-22-2012, 13:24
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#901
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: USA
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The Green Berets by Robin Moore. I'm about 70% done. It is much better than the movie and a motivational read.
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01-22-2012, 13:28
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#902
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Georgetown, SC
Posts: 4,204
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Reflections of a Warrior by Franklin D. Miller, MOH. Episodic account of his Army, SF, and SOG experiences. I love the way he writes.
Won this at the SFA Ch 75 After-Holiday Party's raffle.
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01-25-2012, 12:06
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#903
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canton, PA
Posts: 230
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The Order of the Death's Head by Heinz Hohne. Quite informative, and a few inches thick. Includes photos. Much info I have not read in other Reich related books.
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"...as far as rights go, I look at them this way. I won't tell you what kind of church to go to, you don't tell me what kind of firearm I can own."
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Finally, I believe that punishing lawful gun owners by creating new, more onerous laws, and restricting Constitutionally guaranteed rights, when we already don't enforce the tens of thousands of gun laws we have on the books, is like beating your dog because the neighbor's dog shit in your yard.
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01-31-2012, 17:16
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Gentlemen,
I have just finished Masters of Chaos by Linda Robinson and Secret Commandos by John Plaster. I am trying to keep my library from expanding. Both were great aids for me in getting a better picture of what Special Forces does.
If anyone would like either of these books for yourself or for a friend PM me your mailing address and I will send them out to you. No charge.
-Crito
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01-31-2012, 18:32
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Indianapolis
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I just started Secret Commandos and The Men, the Mission, and Me last weekend. Almost through Commandos and about half way into M, M, &M.
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GM1 USNR (RET)
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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01-31-2012, 18:59
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#906
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Tampa, Fl
Posts: 82
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Imperial Grunts
I am to the point where he is embed with the USMC right after introducing the new CA team that's rotating in country. I really enjoy this book and as a person who as is fresh to the military as I am, this book certainly seems like something I will read and re-read many times.
Be well,
Tweeder
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01-31-2012, 19:40
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Area Commander
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 2,952
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Killing Lincoln, by Bill O'Riley. Not a great fan of the author, but the book is pretty good so far.
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02-04-2012, 06:13
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
Posts: 15,370
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The Driver (1922) and The People's Pottage (1953) by Garet Garrett.
Who's John Galt? 
And so it goes...
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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02-04-2012, 06:23
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Carriere,Ms.
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Originally Posted by Crito
Gentlemen,
I have just finished Masters of Chaos by Linda Robinson and Secret Commandos by John Plaster. I am trying to keep my library from expanding. Both were great aids for me in getting a better picture of what Special Forces does.
If anyone would like either of these books for yourself or for a friend PM me your mailing address and I will send them out to you. No charge.
-Crito
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I'd appreciate Master of Chaos.... xxxxx....THanks, Big Teddy
Edited by Richard
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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02-04-2012, 10:16
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Teddy, you might want to take that address off the open net and take it to PM.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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02-04-2012, 17:54
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Location, Location
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Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor - Russell Bonds (2011)
This audio book was read by the author and tended to be a bit slower than I read - causing my mind to wander. The book covers the who, what, where, when, why and how pretty well. Covers the creation of the Navy's an Army's Medal of Honor. Finishes up with where all the players end up including The General.
Going to start the aBook No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington - Condoleezza Rice (2011) next
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time - Leo Tolstoy
It's Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile - Wayne Dyer
WOKE = Willfully Overlooking Known Evil
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02-04-2012, 18:04
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Location, Location
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Finished SEAL of honor: Operation Red Wings and the life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN - Gary Williams.
It was a very quick read and as more of a memorial of Murphy and those that died that fateful day. In covering this fine young mans life, it details his early years, schooling, and SEAL training - drawing from interviews of friends, family, mentors and comrades. Very little coverage of Operation Redwing where Murphy's actions distinguish himself resulting in his posthumous award of the Medal of Honor.
Started on Lone survivor: the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 - Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time - Leo Tolstoy
It's Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile - Wayne Dyer
WOKE = Willfully Overlooking Known Evil
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02-05-2012, 08:05
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Not book. Books.
Not hard reading, but not fluff either.
I am a big Shelby Foote fan. He was a Civil War expert. You probably saw him on Ken Burns Civil War special on PBS.
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The three volume set is awesome. I'm Proud that I can say I read it. Foote joked that it took him longer to write it then for Lee to fight it. "But General Lee had help . . "
Enjoy TR. Wait to you get to the part about Bedford Forest and anticipating the enemy's action.
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02-05-2012, 13:55
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Philadelphia,Pa.
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Current reading! "The Feathermen"
This book is a non-fiction account written by Ranulph Fiennes and is essentiality about vigilante justice that is known by a sovereign government that even supports and sanctions it to a degree; However, The Crown and the Parliament reserve the right and take the position to disavow any knowledge or involvent in the unpleasantness that usually occurs when organizations disregard the LAW...A good read that should dispel liberal beliefs the fictional characters like James Bond and Jason Bourne do not exist?.....TK
P.S. The book has been made into a movie "Killers Elite"
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02-05-2012, 15:03
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Newnan, Georgia
Posts: 371
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Women by Charles Bukowski and Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey. I enjoy Charles Bukowski's work greatly and Riders of the Purple Sage is an American classic.
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