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Solemn Duty in the Old Guard : From Arlington National Cemetery to the Pentagon on 9/11 in America's Oldest Regiment / Mark Joseph Mongilutz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476631790
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • UA29 3d .S654 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
"You're in the motherfucking Army now, motherfucker." -- Boots, chutes and amended contracts -- Airborne school and a temporary homecoming -- The old guard welcomes its newest -- Second Platoon and a cold inauguration -- Regimental orientation and the expert infantry brigade -- A running summer and a long day on Summerall -- "I think the Pentagon got hit." -- Returning to the Bravo Co. grind -- Polk, EIB and the Musketeers -- Driving, crashing, moving -- S-3: "Nobody knows what to do with these guys!" -- The earning (and occasional abuse) of trust -- Twenty-five-hour days, a promotion board and a rumor -- Left Bravo a private, returned an NCO (almost) -- "You boys been to Ethiopia?" -- Wells and volleyball -- Out of Africa -- A brief TOG return and a morose: Out-processing.
Subject: "This candid memoir recounts the author's four years in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment--a.k.a. "The Old Guard" or "Escort to the President"--from 2000 to 2004. He depicts the day-to-day challenges and triumphs of life in the U.S. Army's oldest and most storied unit, from the 2001 Presidential Inauguration to recovery efforts following the September 11 attacks"--
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Home, memories thereof -- "You're in the motherfucking Army now, motherfucker." -- Boots, chutes and amended contracts -- Airborne school and a temporary homecoming -- The old guard welcomes its newest -- Second Platoon and a cold inauguration -- Regimental orientation and the expert infantry brigade -- A running summer and a long day on Summerall -- "I think the Pentagon got hit." -- Returning to the Bravo Co. grind -- Polk, EIB and the Musketeers -- Driving, crashing, moving -- S-3: "Nobody knows what to do with these guys!" -- The earning (and occasional abuse) of trust -- Twenty-five-hour days, a promotion board and a rumor -- Left Bravo a private, returned an NCO (almost) -- "You boys been to Ethiopia?" -- Wells and volleyball -- Out of Africa -- A brief TOG return and a morose: Out-processing.

"This candid memoir recounts the author's four years in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment--a.k.a. "The Old Guard" or "Escort to the President"--from 2000 to 2004. He depicts the day-to-day challenges and triumphs of life in the U.S. Army's oldest and most storied unit, from the 2001 Presidential Inauguration to recovery efforts following the September 11 attacks"--

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