title: Wearing the Green Beret: A Canadian with the Royal Marine Commandos
author:  Jake Olafsen 
description: "The honest and fast-paced book covers the time between his decision to sign up through to his post-discharge flight home, which he says was definitely a one-way ticket." <br /><i>Vancouver Sun</i><br /><i></i><br />"Canadian Jake Olafsen survived and thrived in the Royal Marines from 2005 to 2009, serving two tours in Afghanistan and now relating his experiences in this gripping memoir. . . . Olafsen's descriptions of firefights are vivid and well-written, albeit laced with profanity." <br /><i><i></i>Winnipeg Free Press</i><br /><i></i><br />". . . Olafson documents it all in its Full Metal Jacket intensity" <br /><i></i>Telegraph Journal<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
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  ETERNITY BASE
  
  The Green Beret Series
  
  by
  
  Bob Mayer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  ANTARCTICA
  
  APPROXIMATELY 575 MILES EAST OF MCMURDO STATION
  
  21 DECEMBER 1971
  
  “The last load,” the army major in the gray parka remarked.
  
  “Amen to that,” Captain Reinhart muttered. Through the scratched Plexiglas
  windshield, he glanced at the frozen runway splayed out in front of his plane.
  To his left rear, a staircase descended into the cargo bay of the C-130
  transport where his loadmaster was securing the few pallets of luggage the
  passengers had carried on board. Along the walls, the major’s soldiers,
  bundled up in cold-weather gear, were seated on red web seats, ready to get
  started on the long journey out of here.
  
  Reinhart couldn’t blame them. He’d brought them here four months ago from
  Vietnam via McMurdo Stati