{"id":26686,"date":"2020-08-13T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26686"},"modified":"2020-12-29T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:54:22","slug":"book-report-amazing-sht-my-drill-sergeant-said-by-dan-caddy-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/book-report-amazing-sht-my-drill-sergeant-said-by-dan-caddy-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said<\/i> by Dan Caddy (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI forget where I saw this book listed most recently on the Internet, but I bought a copy for my former Marine brother and a copy for myself. As I had just finished an Executioner novel (Combat Stretch<\/em><\/a>), I thought I would pick up something quick to read before jumping into another novel. Not that I’m reading long novels recently.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it’s what you would expect: A couple of longer stories (which are a couple paragraphs long) interspersed against single-quotation-on-a-page sections. A lot of insults, some of which we civilians can appropriate.<\/p>\n

As you know, gentle reader, I did not serve, but I come from a military family (Marines, not army). So I recognized at least one story–the candy bar in the toilet–that my father’s drill sergeant had done. So that’s been around a while. And I realized that I knew my mother’s boot camp nickname, but not my father’s–one assumes he had one.<\/p>\n

I have seen a lot of ASMDSS t-shirts listed on my Facebook feed; now I know what it means.<\/p>\n

So a quick read to be sure, and amusing enough if you’re the kind of person who likes the novels of Richard Marcinko<\/a>. And maybe wonders if he regrets not signing up back when three or four years of military service sounded like a long committment, but four years of college and a decade’s worth of student loans did not.<\/p>\n

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I forget where I saw this book listed most recently on the Internet, but I bought a copy for my former Marine brother and a copy for myself. As I had just finished an Executioner novel (Combat Stretch), I thought I would pick up something quick to read before jumping into another novel. Not that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27412,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26686\/revisions\/27412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}