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Title: Author needs to research before writing
Review: Being a Marine I am always looking for a great story about the Corps. But the major and minor mistakes with this story became a constant distraction for me. From the mistaken initial assertion that the Corps does not already have a special forces unit (What about Force Recon and Scout Snipers?) to the use of the Army's affirmation shout (Hoo-aah!) instead of the Marine Corps "Oo-Rah", small mistakes regarding the Corps abound in the story. At times the author uses one or two paragraphs to describe weeks or months worth of back story instead of taking the opportunity to write the story line giving the reader the sense that they were looking at an outline for a novel, rather than the fleshed-out story itself. The three books in this series were cheap and caught me at a time when I needed some reading material, so I read all three hoping for improvement, but it never really came to pass.
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