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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I bought this book as a gift for a Marine friend and ended up reading it myself. This book is a eye-opening introduction to the uninitiated and does a wonderful job of showing how modern Marines are molded during training. Ricks does a masterful job explaining the complex process of shaping disparate young men into a cohesive fighting unit. I highly recommend this book if you have Marine friends and want to gain some insight into their attitudes and values. (  ) ForeignCircus | Oct 20, 2008 |  Intelligent exploration of the past and current state of the USMC. Still keeping up a strong tradition of membership and team over the individual, it is also fighting for a place in the modern world and dealing with a very decaying society, that gap from which continues to increase. (  ) jpsnow | May 25, 2008 | 3275. Making the Corps, by Thomas E. Ricks (read Dec 5, 1999) This was the surprise of this month's reading for me. I really was enthralled by this 1997 book by a Wall Street Journal reporter, giving an account of boot camp for a Marine trainng company at Parris Island. I have no special tie to the Marine Corps (tho my sister was one back in World War II!), but I thought this told me an awful lot about the special world of the Marine Corps, and I was endlessly fascinated by what it told me, and by reflection on the training and how often it failed to make good Marines out of the special type of person attracted to be a Marine. ( ) Schmerguls | Oct 7, 2007 | cshalizi | Aug 7, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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With the end of the cold war, the role of the American military has shifted in emphasis from making war to keeping peace. "The best way to see where the U.S. military is going is to look at the marines today," says Ricks, as the other armed forces have begun to emulate the marine model. To understand Parris Island--a central experience in the life of every marine--is to understand the ethos of the Marine Corps. Ricks examines the recent changes in the Standard Operating Procedures for Recruit Training (the bible of Parris Island), which indicate how the corps is dealing with critical social and political issues like race relations, gender equality, and sexual orientation. Making the Corps pierces the USMC's "sis-boom-bah" mythology to help outsiders understand this most esoteric and eccentric of U.S. armed forces. --Tim Hogan
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