09-09-2009, 20:38
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Asset
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Location: Wisconsin
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Chosen Soldier
A great book so far about a ex navy seal that is tagging along with 18 x-rays through the special forces pipeline.
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09-16-2009, 13:09
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#302
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Asset
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Georgia
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Delta Force by Charlie Beckwith
Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney( Threw that away after reading about him on this site.)
Rogue Warrior by Dick Marcinko
The Warrior Elite by Dick Couch
The Finishing School by Dick Couch
Chosen Soldier by Dick Couch
Kill Bin Laden by Dalton Fury(aka Thomas Greer)
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
...that was this past summer
I'm currently reading The Mission, The Men, and Me by Pete Blaber
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09-17-2009, 00:06
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#303
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Kansas
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What are you reading now...?
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Originally Posted by LongWire
Do yourself a favor, and don't waste your time with the movie. You will be thoroughly disappointed if you are looking for anything resembling the book. MHO........
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Roger that Longwire. Thanks for the advice. I will spend that time doing something better.
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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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09-17-2009, 06:24
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Quiet Professional
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The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
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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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09-24-2009, 14:58
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#305
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BANNED USER
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" Never Surrender " by LTG ( Ret. ) William G. Boykin
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09-24-2009, 18:58
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SF Candidate
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain, Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan,
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09-24-2009, 19:07
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The Outline of History Vol 2 by HG Wells, c. 1926 - Chap 30 Muhammad and Islam; Chap 31 Christendom and the Crusades; Chap 32 The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and his Successors.
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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09-24-2009, 20:02
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#308
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Area Commander
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INVISIBLE HISTORY Afghanistan's Untold Story
by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
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09-24-2009, 21:52
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Guerrilla
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"On Wings Of Eagles" by Ken Follet
What a story.
It describes the EDS/Iran scandal of 1979 and how Mr. Ross Perot rescued his staff from the Iranians.
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09-24-2009, 22:32
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...the EDS/Iran scandal of 1979 and how Mr. Ross Perot rescued his staff from the Iranians.
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FWIW - wasn't a scandal and HRP didn't rescue his staff - he paid the Bull and a few of his former SF employees to do it - big difference in my mind. 
Richard's $.02 
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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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09-26-2009, 14:20
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Area Commander
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Julie Powell, Julie [and] Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, ISBN-13: 9780316042512. When reading some of the green-eyed comments left by Ms. Powell's critics in the blogosphere, one remembers Orel Leonard Hershiser IV's reply to a critic in the fall of 1988. He snarled, "Grab a bat, kid."*
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of An Unlikely Patriot, ISBN-13: 9780061719547. He writes like he talks. MOO, Ferguson is the funniest comedian on television today. Like the late Richard Pryor, Ferguson understands that if you're going to make fun of others one should first look in the mirror, and then look in the mirror again.
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09-26-2009, 22:09
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" Inside Delta Force " by CSM Eric L. Haney
" That Others May Live " by SMSGT Jack Brehm and Pete Nelson
" From A Dark Sky " by Orr Kelly
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09-26-2009, 22:35
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FWIW - wasn't a scandal and HRP didn't rescue his staff - he paid the Bull and a few of his former SF employees to do it - big difference in my mind.
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IIRC, although HRP did not lead the rescue, he did authorize the mission and did personally go to Iran to visit his employees while the rescue execution unfolded. I did not think much of him as a Presidential candidate, but I think he exhibited courage in risking his personal safety and his corporate future.
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09-26-2009, 23:09
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A Novel
"The Plot Against America", by Philip Roth -
In short, Hitler wins the war in Europe, and ultimately occupies American soil. The Constitution is gone, America in now "German".
Im not a big reader of novels, but have been entertained by it's speculations. Perhaps Islam would be another scenario. The high lights of the book are the factual depictions of the lives of FDR, Charles Lindbergh, Walter Mitchell, Henry Ford, and Amelia Earhart.
Note to reader: The book is intended as a referance for readers interested in tracking where historical fact ends and historical imagining begins.
WD
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09-26-2009, 23:26
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Area Commander
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The book is intended as a reference for readers interested in tracking where historical fact ends and historical imagining begins.
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MOO, historical imagining begins the moment anyone sits down and tries to describe the past.
(This is the part of the conversation where social historians turn, glare at me  , and sneer "Then why study history?" They can be such a grumpy lot. )
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