Trick Soldier (Audible Audio Edition) L Ron Hubbard R F Daley Galaxy Audio Books
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Meet Lieutenant Flint hard-edged and muscle-bound, radiating machismo - a bull of a soldier. In the opposite corner stands Captain Turner with his pencil mustache and tailored shirts, he's a Trick Soldier - smart, crisply-dressed, and always at attention. They're fire and ice, oil and water... Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox in Casualties of War.
Ten years ago and a thousand miles away, they attended boot camp together. They didn't get along then... and they don't get along now. Reunited in the Haitian jungles, in the midst of a fierce rebel uprising, they confront the most dangerous enemy of all - each other.
It's time for heroes to rise and cowards to fall, and in the case of Lieutenant Flint and Captain Turner, bravery runs deep. When brute strength confronts military honor, the true measure of a man is not in his fists, but in his heart.
A First Sergeant with the 20th United States Marine Corps Reserve, Hubbard knew exactly what it meant to be a Marine. As he wrote in 1935 "Most of the fiction written about [Marines] is of an intensely dramatic type, all do-or-die and Semper Fidelis." But the reality, he said, was far different. "I've known the Corps from Quantico to Peiping, from the South Pacific to the West Indies, and I've never seen any flag-waving. The most refreshing part of the U.S.M.C. is that they get their orders... and do the job and that's that." It's that kind of unique and pointed insight that he brings to stories like Trick Soldier.
Also includes the military adventures He Walked to War, in which Marine Sergeant E.Z. Go appears to take it easy, but always gets the job done... even if it's hard as nails or dangerous as hell - in the end E.Z. does it; and Machine Gun 21,000, the story of a soldier who loses a gun and faces a court martial, but finds a way to save the day.
Trick Soldier (Audible Audio Edition) L Ron Hubbard R F Daley Galaxy Audio Books
“Story Telling At Its Best.”This volume actually contains three stories: TRICK SOLDIER, originally published in the January 1936 issue of TOP-NOTCH; HE WALKED TO WAR, and MACHINE GUN 21,000. These are stories featuring Marines by a Marine.
TRICK SOLDIER takes place in Haiti, ten years after Marine Boot. Captain Turner and Lieutenant Flint had trained together. Flint was a big, tough boxer who didn’t like Turner because he was always tricked out in polish and creases, and knew the regulations. During Boot, Flint would beat Turner with his big fists, until the smaller man begged for mercy. Now they are together again, in the jungles of Haiti. Captain Turner is trying to train natives to fight against the rebels, but the disobedient Flint undermines his command. When the trainees desert and join the rebels, Turner and Flint must escape. With both men wounded, Turner brings Flint safely to HQ before collapsing, proving heroism need not have big fists.
HE WALKED TO WAR: Sergeant Egbert Zacharia Golingame is a Marine lineman, running wire through the jungle of Nicaragua, so military posts could talk to each other. He did a lot of walking with his squad. Since he had studied up on the position of a gunner in planes, he put in a transfer for aviation to keep from walking so much. However, the first flight he was on crashed when the engine was hit with weapons fire from the ground. Now it was up to him to carry his wounded lieutenant to safety. It seemed no matter what his job, Sgt. Easy Go was always walking.
MACHINE GUN 21,000: Marine Gunnery Sgt. Blake is an acting captain with the Guardia National de Nicaragua. He has a tendency to forget things, and lose other things – like a machine gun. When Major James C. Butterick comes to camp, he finds the clerk, Sgt. Bautista – better known as Ojos Verdes – with his paperwork in order, but Captain Blake’s paperwork is missing, along with Blake. But now it seems the natives with the Guard may be tied in with the rebels, and have the machine gun at their disposal. There’s only one thing for a marine to do, and that’s to charge the machine gun and take back his command.
These short stories were a lot of fun. The author was writing about things he knew first hand, and being a marine he makes the stories come alive. They almost sound historically accurate, as if he lived them himself. Highly recommended for lovers of good fiction, and anyone that likes a good yarn.
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Trick Soldier (Audible Audio Edition) L Ron Hubbard R F Daley Galaxy Audio Books Reviews
L. Ron Hubbard's bibliography of pulp stories is coming back in a new Stories from the Golden Age series, right in the midst of a resurgence of interest in pulp fiction. Hubbard wrote some 300 stories spanning multiple genres, getting his start in the pulp ghetto of the 1930s before he launched the careers he's most famous for. This volume has three military stories set in Central American and Caribbean hotspots of the 1930s.
"Trick Soldier" has two adversaries from boot camp are assigned to the same unit on the battlegrounds of Haiti, where their rivalry comes to a head in the heat of battle and the mark of a true hero is shown. "He Walked To War" is about a Marine signal corpsman who switches to aviation, having grown sick of walking back and forth across Nicaragua fixing telephone lines. Disaster ensues, and he finds himself in an even more dangerous situation -- with even more walking. "Machine Gun 21,000" is about an officer who's facing court-martial for the loss of his unit's heavy machine gun; determined to salvage his career -- and not pay a $500 fine -- he sets off to find it. He does, in the hands of Nicaraguan rebels; to get that gun back, he'll have to brave its own deadly fire!
Of the three stories, I liked "He Walked To War" and "Machine Gun 21,000" the best; it felt like they had tighter pacing and a bit more meat behind them. "Machine Gun 21,000" had a number of slick twists I didn't see coming, and was probably the most action-packed of the three. "Trick Soldier" wasn't bad, but jumped into a flashback early on, meaning it took a while to get started and the pacing was a bit awkward because of that. All three are written in a brisk and smooth prose, using plots ripped from the headlines of yesteryear, as the United States' military interventions in Haiti and Nicaragua had ended a year or so before Hubbard wrote about them. A fun volume, though I've preferred other Stories from the Golden Age volumes I read previously..
This collection features three stories of the Marine Corps fighting bandits and rebels in Haiti and Nicarauga "Trick Soldier" from the January 1936 issue of the pulp magazine TOP-NOTCH; "He Walked to War" from the October 1, 1935 issue of ADVENTURE; and "Machine Gun 21,000" from the December 1935 issue of DYNAMIC ADVENTURES.
"Trick Soldier" is the story of two old enemies from boot camp being assigned together ten years later and how that grudge puts them both in danger. "He Walked to War" finds a Signal Corpsman with a reputation for laziness transfers to aviation so he won't have to walk all over Nicaragua stringing telephone wire and dodging bullets, only to have that effort backfire and put him in an even more hazardous situation. "Machine Gun 21,000" is about an absent-minded officer who loses a machine gun to rebel forces and has to recover it if he wants to salvage his career.
Hubbard's writing is crisp and effective in all three of these military yarns, which bear the stamp of authenticity and capture the era between the World Wars quite well. My favorite of the trio is "Machine Gun 21,000", which also includes a couple of nice plot twists that I didn't see coming. This is another good collection of Hubbard's pulp stories.
“Story Telling At Its Best.”
This volume actually contains three stories TRICK SOLDIER, originally published in the January 1936 issue of TOP-NOTCH; HE WALKED TO WAR, and MACHINE GUN 21,000. These are stories featuring Marines by a Marine.
TRICK SOLDIER takes place in Haiti, ten years after Marine Boot. Captain Turner and Lieutenant Flint had trained together. Flint was a big, tough boxer who didn’t like Turner because he was always tricked out in polish and creases, and knew the regulations. During Boot, Flint would beat Turner with his big fists, until the smaller man begged for mercy. Now they are together again, in the jungles of Haiti. Captain Turner is trying to train natives to fight against the rebels, but the disobedient Flint undermines his command. When the trainees desert and join the rebels, Turner and Flint must escape. With both men wounded, Turner brings Flint safely to HQ before collapsing, proving heroism need not have big fists.
HE WALKED TO WAR Sergeant Egbert Zacharia Golingame is a Marine lineman, running wire through the jungle of Nicaragua, so military posts could talk to each other. He did a lot of walking with his squad. Since he had studied up on the position of a gunner in planes, he put in a transfer for aviation to keep from walking so much. However, the first flight he was on crashed when the engine was hit with weapons fire from the ground. Now it was up to him to carry his wounded lieutenant to safety. It seemed no matter what his job, Sgt. Easy Go was always walking.
MACHINE GUN 21,000 Marine Gunnery Sgt. Blake is an acting captain with the Guardia National de Nicaragua. He has a tendency to forget things, and lose other things – like a machine gun. When Major James C. Butterick comes to camp, he finds the clerk, Sgt. Bautista – better known as Ojos Verdes – with his paperwork in order, but Captain Blake’s paperwork is missing, along with Blake. But now it seems the natives with the Guard may be tied in with the rebels, and have the machine gun at their disposal. There’s only one thing for a marine to do, and that’s to charge the machine gun and take back his command.
These short stories were a lot of fun. The author was writing about things he knew first hand, and being a marine he makes the stories come alive. They almost sound historically accurate, as if he lived them himself. Highly recommended for lovers of good fiction, and anyone that likes a good yarn.
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