Review:Captain Scotty Smiley, might not see things like we do, but it doesn't mean he doesn't see what is important and how to live his life despite seemingly difficult circumstances. While serving in Mosul in Iraq he became the target of a suicide bomber and subsequently lost his eyesight. He could have dealt with things as most of us would have and simply come home and attempt to live a life as best as he could now being completely blind, but he didn't. He did things most of us only imagine. He scale... Read more

Review:Wow! - I started reading this book yesterday. Finished it this evening. I only put it down for very important appointments; I read it on the john, over breakfast, while on the exercise bike, in bed last night and this morning. I was amazed when I read the Acknowledgments and found she wasn't in the second Humvee on April 4, 2004. The book read like a diary of someone who was right there. This book does not glorify war; but it does lead you to love and sympathize with the participants in it. All ... Read more

Review:I write this review with 20 years of "non-trigger pulling" Intelligence work in Uncle Sam's Misguided Children (USMC). 20 of the best and worst years of my life, and I wouldn't change a thing. What a ride! Anyhow, the purpose of this review...

I had the pleasure of working with both Force Recon, and the Scout Snipers during the run-up to the Yugoslavia implosion while assigned to the 26 MEU/SOC (Marine Expeditionary Unit - Special Operations Capable) in 1993, and found them to be near ... Read more