"The Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. I'd like to give back and serve my country again," explains former Marine corporal, Zachary Taylor Primrose, to the recruiting officer. But Primrose has a hidden agenda: to find out what happened to a trio of musicians, including his wife, Rhonda, who disappeared on a USO tour near the border of Laos. There hasn't been a concerted effort to rescue the group, and in his gut, he knows there's more to this than just a routine kidnapping.Can Primrose circumvent the bureaucracy and secretly put together a clandestine team of misfits, including Heto, an Okinawan tracker; Tom Toms, a Native American who listens to his shamans, and T.C. Champion, an explosives expert currently in the brig for blowing up a Saigon whorehouse. Can they save the lives of three Americans before it's too late?
"The Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. I'd like to give back and serve my country again," explains former Marine corporal, Zachary Taylor Primrose, to the recruiting officer. But Primrose has a hidden agenda: to find out what happened to a trio of musicians, including his wife, Rhonda, who disappeared on a USO tour near the border of Laos. There hasn't been a concerted effort to rescue the group, and in his gut, he knows there's more to this than just a routine kidnapping.Can Primrose circumvent the bureaucracy and secretly put together a clandestine team of misfits, including Heto, an Okinawan tracker; Tom Toms, a Native American who listens to his shamans, and T.C. Champion, an explosives expert currently in the brig for blowing up a Saigon whorehouse. Can they save the lives of three Americans before it's too late?
The Vietnam War long over, Zachary Taylor Primrose and his former comrade in arms, Patrick Thomas Knight have started their own PI firm in Honolulu. When Sergeant T.J. DeSoto, U.S.M.C., disappears in the Middle East, his wealthy grandmother becomes Special Island Investigations' first client. Primrose puts together his old team from 'Nam: Toms, McPotts, and Slipps, and with the unofficial help of Colonel Easy, they manage to get into Iraq only days before war breaks out.Colonel Easy has a favor to ask in return for his help: a supposedly "piece-of-cake" mission to root out a cell of international terrorists before the war starts. The non-stop action takes the recommissioned team, along with Sergeant DeSoto, from Iraq to Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Indian Ocean on the trail of international intrigue on a bigger scale than they had could ever have imagined.
The Vietnam War long over, Zachary Taylor Primrose and his former comrade in arms, Patrick Thomas Knight have started their own PI firm in Honolulu. When Sergeant T.J. DeSoto, U.S.M.C., disappears in the Middle East, his wealthy grandmother becomes Special Island Investigations' first client. Primrose puts together his old team from 'Nam: Toms, McPotts, and Slipps, and with the unofficial help of Colonel Easy, they manage to get into Iraq only days before war breaks out.Colonel Easy has a favor to ask in return for his help: a supposedly "piece-of-cake" mission to root out a cell of international terrorists before the war starts. The non-stop action takes the recommissioned team, along with Sergeant DeSoto, from Iraq to Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Indian Ocean on the trail of international intrigue on a bigger scale than they had could ever have imagined.
Eugenics is the science which deals with the improvement of inherited qualities of a race. It may be either negative or positive. Negative by killing off those inferior and positive by improving the gene pool by encouraging reproduction of the superior. The Nazi's used both. Negative by murdering millions thought to be undesirable, and encouraging reproduction of those believed to be superior. Nazi scientists were not only permitted to do experiments with human embryos that had previously been prohibited, but were encouraged to do whatever they thought might produce positive results.After the Nazis took control of Germany, a doctor set up a fertility Clinic in Berlin. When a couple came to the clinic after the 1936 Olympics and the husband's sperm count was zero, instead of telling them that, they would be told his count was very low, but could be collected over a week or so to be enough and injected.However, the clinic had collected eggs and sperm from an Opera Star and her husband, a physicist, both geniuses and Olympic Gold medalists, to be surreptitiously inserted instead. However, unbeknown to the doctor, his assistant injected a few animal genes in the eggs. Some miscarried, some stillborn, but twenty survived.THE STORY IS ABOUT THEM.
This book is a small record of how things were done in a particular time period in the Marine Corps training history. In order to win, you have to put the best team together for that period or era. In the '60s, the techniques and tactics worked for the events that were going on at that time. What didn't work were the procedures we had to follow that were given to us by the politicians who knew nothing about the work we had to do. I'm sure they've changed in the last sixty years and will continue to evolve until they are no longer needed. I mean no disrespect to my beloved corps then, now, or in the future. If I were to criticize their procedures then and now, I would say that back then they took the so-called bad boys and now they want you with no flaws so that they don't have to waste time taking the errant behavior out of the individual in order to put their wants and needs and desires into him. They don't want to do the heavy lifting anymore. We haven't won a war since the middle forties, so I wouldn't know, but I've been told by people who were there that, in the end, it is the individual marine with a rifle and fixed bayonet who closes with and kills his enemy. That takes a bad boy who is used to doing the heavy lifting and the dirty work, but we have special units in almost every branch of the service that are trained specifically to do the heavy lifting and the dirty work. Semper Fi.
Inspirational, spiritual, thought-provoking, sensitive, sexual, and risqu are a few words that describe the expressive themes in this book. The author shares intimate experiences that delve deeply into her life story. Each poem contains pieces of her soul poured out in words and meant to awaken the readers' mental imagery. Journey through the stages of awakenings and growth as the author narrates her life in verse. The awakening of the unspoken dreams and characters will send a rush through your bones as no other before. Shhhh...relax, listen, and breathe, cry if you have to. Relate, unbreak, and love again.
Dark DreamsGuided by visions from Quell, the god of seas and storms, your heroes seek the legendary panoply of the blue. But finding it is easier said than done, for demonic guardians and lycanthrope pirates guard each of the panoply's four segments. Can you brave deadly waters and even deadlier foes to retrievethe long-lost artifact?Or will your failure cause calamities of epic proportions?
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A detailed description of Norval C Karns' 3 years of serving his country in the Navy, primarily as a motor machinist on a Patrol Torpedo (PT) Boat in the Pacific. Chock-full of photos and valuable information about PT boats and the men who served on them.
The C# programming language from Microsoft is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. This book is designed for an absolute beginner to get started with this powerful programming language. You do not need any prior programming experience to read this book. You will need access to a Windows PC or a Mac to install Visual Studio Code and .NET Core (free downloads) to run the labs in this book. I will also show you some affordable cloud-based options so you can do your software development in the cloud. In this book, I will start with a very basic sample program and then we will add elements that illustrate basic language constructs step by step to this program until you have a complete demonstration program. We will review basic language elements such as: Loops If Statements Case statements C# Data Types Methods Object-Oriented Programming and More After that, we will then build a more complete demonstration program that integrates all of the concepts in the book. By the end of this book, you will have a basic knowledge of the C# programming language and will be able to write your own programs.
Learn how to fingerspell from A-Z with characters Poppy & Zack, includes concept for each letter. QR code inside the book links to video showing how to sign the story.
