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“I’ve gotta learn to love myself.”

If you’re wondering how you’ll know if they’re from Texas: They’ll tell you.

Think of it as a supplement to the Commandant’s Professional Reading list, only Marines may actually want to read these items.

Santa's about to hot drop into enemy blaster fire.

As if 'The Hurt Locker' wasn't bad enough.

Too soon?

Here’s a brief list of some of the best books we read here at Task & Purpose in the last year.

Mind games, crappy food, matching uniforms, and signing a contract without realizing what you're agreeing to. Sound familiar?

Blue Angels and brrrrt, silkies and squad bays...we have it all

Gripes go up.

Hating 'Pearl Harbor' is not a personality trait.

Yeah, that actually happened.

They need more guns. Lots of guns.

“You might say he was rough around the edges. He was comfortable using the F word.”

'Easley fought for his country, and when he needed help, his country let him down.'

If you blink, you'll miss it.

If there is such a thing as literary justice, you will eventually find Tellessen’s truth shelved alongside Sledge and Leckie and O’Brien.

This is the same kind of guy who won’t shut up about ‘OPSEC violations’ in the comment section.

"We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!"

There's a whole hell of a lot going on here.

Please don't suck.

“I wasn’t there in 1944 in June on Omaha Beach, but seeing that I somehow felt I was."

A long time ago, in a mortar platoon far, far away.

What's your MOS?

"When you're in that critical moment the only thing you're thinking about is taking care of the people around you."