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The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training - Couverture souple

Fleming, Keith

 
9781570038846: The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1570038848 ISBN 13 : 9781570038846
Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2009

Synopsis

In 1956 a Marine drill instructor led his recruit platoon on a punitive night march across Ribbon Creek, a tidal stream at the Parris Island, South Carolina, recruit depot. Six men drowned, and the resulting court-martial became a national media sensation putting the future of the corps into question. Written by a senior historian at the Marine Corps Historical Center, The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis explores the social, political, and historical context of this tragic moment in U.S. military history as a case study in how bureaucratic institutions undertake internal reform and offering a valuable vantage point on tensions in American society during the 1950s.

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À propos de l'auteur

Keith Fleming holds a Ph.D. in American military history from Ohio State University. He is a former U.S. Marine officer who commanded a rifle platoon in the U.S. intervention in the Domincan Republic in 1965 and the following year assumed command of a rifle company in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam.

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Éditeur
University of South Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1570038848
ISBN 13 
9781570038846
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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