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One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer is an autobiography by Nathaniel Fick, published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2005. An account of Nathaniel Fick's time in the United States Marine Corps , it begins with his experiences at Officer Candidate's School in Quantico, Virginia and details his deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq during the ...
Robert Hugh Leckie (December 18, 1920 – December 24, 2001) was a United States Marine and an author of books about the military history of the United States, Catholic history and culture, sports books, fiction books, autobiographies, and children's books.
Nautical publications is a technical term used in maritime circles describing a set of publications, either published by national governments or by commercial and professional organisations, for use in safe navigation of ships, boats, and similar vessels.
The result was Practical Boat Handling, the first edition of which was published in 1917 with 144 pages, 5 × 7 in.. From this, the book evolved through many editions into Piloting, Seamanship & Small Boat Handling. The book title has now been shortened to Chapman Piloting & Seamanship.
[7] Williamson felt that Swofford had focused too much on the "animalistic" side of Marine life with his tales of disgusting and/or salacious incidents, and not enough on the self-discipline needed to be a Marine. [7] Williamson concluded that the Marine Corps is regarded as one of the premier branches of the American military, and that one ...
Rule 7 – Risk of Collision. [11] This rule requires all vessels to use all available means to determine if a risk of collision exists. [11] These include the proper use of marine radar and the taking of bearings by ship's compass to determine if there is a steady bearing and risk of collison. [11] Rule 8 – Action to Avoid Collision.
In 2005 Anova Books bought Conway Maritime Press. Around this time the publisher was renamed Conway Publishing. Whilst still committed to producing specialist maritime books, Conway broadened their catalogue to incorporate general, military and aviation history, exploration, as well as railway and scale modelling (with Hornby and Airfix), amongst other related topics.