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

By Keith Fleming

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087249635X
• ISBN13: 9780872496354
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"