Radioman Twenty-five years in the Marine Corps : from Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Book - 2022
"From a Gulf War grunt to a Marine Major in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Andrew Hesterman saw it all. Radioman offers a highly personal and unfiltered view of the Marine Corps as it transitioned from the post-Vietnam analog Reagan era to the post-9/11 high-tech George W. Bush and Obama years."--Jacket flap.
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- Autobiographies
- Published
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Yorkshire :
Pen & Sword Military
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- x, 317 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781399090759
- Preface
- Prologue
- Part I. Enlistment and Early Years (1985-1990)
- Chapter 1. Suburban Punk or Lethal Weapon?
- Chapter 2. Boot Camp
- Chapter 3. Comm School
- Chapter 4. The Reserves
- Chapter 5. Corporal
- Chapter 6. Transfer
- Chapter 7. Getting the Call
- Part II. The Guff War (1991)
- Chapter 8. Camp Lejeune
- Chapter 9. Arrival in Saudi
- Chapter 10. Moving North
- Chapter 11. Up to the Berm
- Chapter 12. Lost in the Desert
- Chapter 13. Point Man
- Chapter 14. Khafji
- Chapter 15. Little Red Corvette
- Chapter 16. Crossing the Berm
- Chapter 17. The Tank
- Chapter 18. The Water Tower
- Chapter 19. Attacking North
- Chapter 20. Kuwait City
- Part III. Commissioning and Flight School (1993-2002)
- Chapter 21. Married
- Chapter 22. Flight School
- Chapter 23. Divorced
- Chapter 24. Kosovo
- Chapter 25. 9/11
- Chapter 26. Married... With Children
- Part IV. Iraq and Afghanistan (2002-2013)
- Chapter 27. Iraq
- Chapter 28. Embracing the Suck
- Chapter 29. IEDs and VIPs
- Chapter 30. Michael
- Chapter 31. Hit
- Chapter 32. Fallujah
- Chapter 33. Redeployment
- Chapter 34. Dwell Time
- Chapter 35. Iraq Part II: Groundhog Day
- Chapter 36. Auburn
- Chapter 37. Terminal Major
- Chapter 38. Afghanistan
- Chapter 39. Retirement
- GOAT (Glossary Of Acronyms and Terms)
- Acknowledgments