New lieutenants don’t think like you or me. I was an old Lieutenant – crusty with eight years of service and five promotions already under my belt. I was on the career home stretch. I had company, too. One of my fellow MECEP’ers, Andre Leblanc was what I call the ultimate Marine. He had come […]
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Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep86 – Expectations & Goals
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep85 – What is holding you back?
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep84 – Picking the Right Title
The Tank
Is there anything under a tank that one needs to see? Part of training new lieutenants is to have them crawl under a running tank. I am sure this is important to build self confidence and show that it can be done. Our day came during training. I happened to be the acting Company Commander […]
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep83 – Picking the Right Title
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep82 – Stacked Promotions
C&M Ep116 – Setting the Record Straight
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep81 – Media Package
Training to be a USMC Officer, The Basic School (TBS, also called The Ball Slap)
Training to be an officer in the Marine Corps is interesting and the epitome of diversity. All the differing backgrounds and bases of knowledge had to be molded so that every new lieutenant had a basic skill set to enable him (I say him because my company was an all-male company through training) to be […]
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep80 – Catchy Tagline
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep79 – Theme in Story/Series Arc
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep78 – What genre is your story?
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep77 – The Anti-Sale Sales Technique
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep76 – Craft or Marketing?
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep75 – Write to Market
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep74 – Write to Market
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep73 – When to be Wary
Successful Indie Author Five-Minute Focus Ep72 – Doing your own print runs
Bored Marines
One never wants one’s Marines to be bored. While with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit cruising through the Mediterranean, we were scheduled for an exercise at a training area in northern Italy called Monte Romano. As an intelligence collection and signals exploitation unit, we didn’t operate with the main body. We supported the warfighters by […]