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I met author Forrest R. Lindsey at a gun show where he graciously provided a signed copy of this remarkable account of his experiences as a young man enlisting in the Marine Corps a year after high school in 1965. After witnessing the vagaries of war and eventually being wounded during combat operations in Vietnam, Lindsey struggled through a lengthy recovery process to regain the ability to walk. Eventually, his latent interest in the engineering and deployment of military arms led to his return to the Corps as an artillery officer in 1973.
During his 27-year career, Lindsey served in a variety of positions, eventually commanding the…