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Okay, I really enjoyed this book. Perhaps because, like the author, I was also a Marine and Viet Nam veteran. But why is it when someone writes military sci-fi about a small unit there always has to be a young officer who is an incompetent a--h---, who also turns out to be a coward?
I know such existed in real life. Hell, as an officer, I even knew some of them myself. And, probably, there were times I was one too. But some of the things the young officer in this story did, or didn't do, would have shamed even a new private reporting in at his first duty station.
In describing the requirement that an officer in the space-age Marines had first to be an enlisted man, you would have thought the idiots would be weeded out before being selected. This type of character is a tired cliche.
Having said all that, I have just requested the next two books in this series.
I know such existed in real life. Hell, as an officer, I even knew some of them myself. And, probably, there were times I was one too. But some of the things the young officer in this story did, or didn't do, would have shamed even a new private reporting in at his first duty station.
In describing the requirement that an officer in the space-age Marines had first to be an enlisted man, you would have thought the idiots would be weeded out before being selected. This type of character is a tired cliche.
Having said all that, I have just requested the next two books in this series.
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