07-15-2009, 15:52
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Area Commander
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Raeford, NC
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"The Lakota Way" Native American wisdom on ethics and character - Joseph M. Marshall
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"If one day you decide to know yourself...you'll have to choose the warrior path...You'll reach the darkness of your spirit.... Then, if you overcome your fears....You will know who you are."
"De Oppresso Liber"
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07-15-2009, 15:54
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Hey, Auto26, you missed a few steps.
Go back, read the rules and stickies, and comply before posting further.
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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07-26-2009, 23:22
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#273
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: West Coast/ Mid West
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Lone Survivor...
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07-28-2009, 09:02
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Asset
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Back in NC, goodbye Baghdad!
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I just got Masters of Chaos, Linda Robinson & I'm waiting on my parents to send me Delta Force, Col. Charlie Beckwith & Work Commando, Claire Swedberg that I bought from a QP on this very thread.
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CURRAHEE!!!
~The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
-Thucydides
~The one constant that will never change is the caliber, professionalism, and expertise of the SF soldier.
-Colonel Jack Maroney
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07-28-2009, 10:47
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Asset
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Grafenwoher, DE
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Currently reading Get Selected and just finished Chosen Soldier by Dick Couch. Just trying to plan the best I can for the task ahead. It's a long road to my end state, but it has been traveled sucessfully by many men before.
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." -JFK
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07-28-2009, 16:56
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Just finished "Beyond Nam Dong" by Col Roger Donlon (MOH). Re-started reading "The Coldest Winter" by David Halberstam about the Korean War.
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"I took a different route from most and came into Special Forces..." - Col. Nick Rowe
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07-28-2009, 19:26
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: West of Bragg...a few months out of the year
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Just began reading a book titled " Last Breath". It is a bunch of fictional narratives explaining the physiological responses the body goes through during deaths due to drowning, hypothermia, the bends, etc. Pretty cool so far.
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07-29-2009, 06:25
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Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2007
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The Drunkard's Walk...How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leaonard Mlodinow
A Wonderful book of chance, probability and of course, randomness, in our daily lives, and how misunderstood to actual cause and effect, when in actuality is more influenced by chance decision making processes.
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07-29-2009, 06:53
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Occupied America....
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Just finished "Slow Walk in a Sad Rain" by John P. McAfee.
Wide range of emotions while reading this.
Began "Night Drop" by S. Marshall
Interesting read concerning 82nd and 101st operations on D-Day. There are portions of very great detail and I find myself referring back to the maps in order to track locations and movements. This is representative of the actual operation so no surprise there. The writing seems a bit disjointed but overall a good read.
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"There are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"
James Madison
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07-29-2009, 09:36
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I almost always have several books going at once and now is no exception.
From the public library:
. Bailout Nation, Ritholtz - How greed and and easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy.
. One Second After, Forstchen - A novel about what would happen in case of an EMP attach. (ElectroMagnetic Pulse)
. Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, SECOND EDITION (Crc Series in Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations) by Vincent J.M. DiMaio M.D.
From my personal library:
. On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
. Emergency, Strauss - The world is in crisis emergency escape plan.
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08-01-2009, 10:45
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lower Alabama
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Not too long ago I finished Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program by Stephen Grey. Makes you wonder how the CIA keeps anything secret.
x/S
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08-01-2009, 16:03
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: No. Va
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I reread Green Eyes and Black Rifles by Kyle Lamb this week. I can't say too many good things about the book. If you carry a rifle, you should read it.
It reminded me how much knowledge one can get from a book, so I searched Amazon yesterday for other possible gems.
I ordered the following:
Paul Howe's The Tactical Trainer: A Few Thoughts On Training And Training Management From A Former Special Operations Soldier.
Kelly McCann's Combatives for Street Survival: Hard-Core Countermeasures for High-Risk Situations. I understand it's the author's take Fairbairn's WWII combatives.
Gavin De Becker's Gift of Fear. I believe it deals with mindset and awareness. It's been out a long time and several people recommended it, so I'll read it.
The first two are recently published. I'll give a short review when I read them.
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08-05-2009, 21:24
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: West Coast/ Mid West
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Just finished Lone Survivor and Inside Delta Force....
The first was mind blowing... .The second... I didnt like it as much.... There didnt really seem to be a point, especially near the end.
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08-05-2009, 23:36
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Kansas
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What are you reading now...?
Currently, The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield. Only on Chapter 3, very good thus far.
Just Finished
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. Excellent read. Certainly among my all time favorites.
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. I have never watched the movie but began reading it with an open mind. Not at all what I expected. Very good book.
All three books were recommended to me by someone willing to share his time, knowledge and experience with me.
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"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed." William Ernest Henley
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08-06-2009, 12:21
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Recently finished Horse Soldiers From a wives perspective it was an amazing read . 
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