The. Absolute. Best book you will ever read on Marine Corps boot camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. Marine Corps Boot Camp. An unprecedented first-hand account of the harrowing journey from that petrifying first night on the yellow footprints. Recruit Clark kept a daily journal of his ordeal in meticulous detail and captures the essence of what makes this one of the hardest, most extreme military challenges in the world. And due to the inexorable harshness, a challenge that not all of his fellow recruits were able to complete.

This is the stark day-to-day reality of boot camp from a lowly recruit’s perspective. This is life on the inside, within the ranks, standing at the position of attention in formation. This is being relentlessly harassed by the godawful, unhinged, foaming at the mouth drill instructors and the sometimes humorous, but ever-present affliction.

This is The Marine Corps Experience.