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Freaks of a Feather a Marine Grunt's memoir

Kacy Tellessen is a grunt. After completing high school in rural Washington, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and began the hero's journey he imagined might parallel those epic tales he'd consumed throughout adolescence. But what Tellessen lived through--from boot camp to the battlefield and home aga...

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Main Author: Tellessen, Kacy (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Spokane, Washington : Latah Books, 2021.
Subjects:
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American.
United States > History, Military > 21st century.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book clubbing for grunts
  • The making
  • Processing
  • Boot camp
  • The school of infantry
  • The fleet
  • Going
  • Into the wild
  • Death comes
  • The palm grove
  • Alonzo
  • On creeping darkness and candy
  • Mail baggage
  • The disintegration of Corporal Gardner
  • Observation post
  • Valentine's day
  • Sweep and clear
  • Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
  • Miles to go
  • Once more
  • Getting out
  • Kevlar words
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the author.

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