09-21-2008, 19:39
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"Intermediate Financial Management", by Eugene Brigham & Philip Daves.  |
Is that with or without aspirin? 
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09-21-2008, 19:41
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Is that with or without aspirin? |
D'oh! I was thinking Preparation-H.
Pat
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09-21-2008, 20:18
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Books or Video games
I was always impressed that younger soldiers were actually reading, not what they were reading. Books are to the mind what weights are to the muscles.
TR has a point. I waited 21 years before I broadened my horizon to the classics and other material that had nothing to do with the military/politics.
Currently: Constitutional Law and the Criminal Justice System (text book)
Just finished: Scandalmongers by William Safire (you think MSM is bad now, they were brutal back in the Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr days)
On the lighter side, remember when a reading list was an appendix in the ODA SOP? It was about the same time when reading the newspaper in the team room was considered f---ing off. (you can read that current events stuff on your off time)
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09-21-2008, 20:34
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The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228
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09-21-2008, 21:51
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Pissing contests here are normally short.
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TR, that wasn't a pissing contest. Think of it as my way of making sure my name is pronounced correctly . . . I've reviewed your many, many posts --nothing seems to get by you -- Vigilance. I am delighted to be in the home of one of the brotherhood who makes this forum possible.
Final bona fide . . . that "girl" having the snit with the Library of Congress He was my B Det CO at the same time the former LTG was my Bn CO. I am staggered by both! Now will someone change that "asset" to QP?!!!
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09-22-2008, 02:03
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Finished "The Pentagon" by Steve Vogel - the story of the building of the Pentagon and its history since.
Working my way through David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter" - about the Korean War - excellent so far.
Both were birthday gifts from my daughter.
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09-22-2008, 07:46
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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick O'Donnel.
Just started reading it last night.
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09-22-2008, 08:19
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News from Tartary by Peter Fleming, a travel classic from 1935. I'm four chapters in and, oh my golly, what an adventure this will be! Amazon has the first chapter on "look inside". That little amuse bouche should rouse your appetite and I really think many here would enjoy a trip thru that part of the world. Even in that era it has much to say about things today.
Also reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I remember the beauty and depth of the 80's series well, and thought I should at least read the book once in my life before I go to the upcoming movie version. Like any truly great novel, I'm identifying with more than I anticipated, so I have to read a chapter, then meditate for awhile. I've also got A Tale of Two Cities running in the same manner. I never could go this slow in my youth, but now that I have no goal whatsoever other than my own pleasure the rewards seem to be even greater.
I've got For Whom the Bell Tolls up next in honor of John McCain, and Love in the Time of Cholera just for the discipline of raking my soul over the coals - I fear my heart has grown cold.
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09-22-2008, 08:57
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TR, that wasn't a pissing contest. Think of it as my way of making sure my name is pronounced correctly . . .
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Wasn't directed at you, it was underneath the quote by Black Dragon and was for him.
TR
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09-22-2008, 11:00
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09-22-2008, 11:28
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For leisure:
Watchmen, and Generation Kill.
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09-22-2008, 12:54
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Alas Babylon, and Captured by the Indians/15 first hand accounts, 1750-1870.
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09-22-2008, 17:03
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James Holloway III, Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation
F. J. (Bing) West and Ray Smith, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines
John D. Sherwood, Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era
James Stavridis, Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command
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09-22-2008, 18:57
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Consigliere
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Now that I am finished with the ENTIRE Harry Potter series, which my kids MADE me read, I can get back to serious stuff. LOL
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09-22-2008, 20:50
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"Easy Company Soldier" SGT Don Malarkey
"A Tale of Two Subs" Jonathan McCullough
"Stupid History" Leland Gregory
"How To Win A Fight With A Liberal" Daniel Kurtzman My SUV Can Beat Up Your Prius!
Richard 
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