Four in the Corps

<I>Four in the Corps</I> takes you from the famed yellow footprints of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot to the sands of Iraq and all points in between. Though there are many books that describe a specific battle or give a broad overview of an entire war there are few that do what this one does: give you a day-by-day account of what it's really like to go through a four-year enlistment as a United States Marine. From walking into a recruiter's office in a run-down strip mall in Austin Texas to getting out four years later as a combat vet with an Honorable Discharge nothing is left out- the good the bad or the appallingly disgusting. Just as interesting as the ambushes and firefights are the life-long friendships and intense rivalries that spring up among these men. No detail is spared no matter how gruesome ridiculous or embarrassing to the author it may be.</P>