Task & Purpose Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Tuskegee Airmen: Chronology

U. S. Air Force

Task & Purpose

The story of how Tuskegee Airmen won the Air Force's first "Top Gun" competition in obsolete planes that didn't even have gun sights https://t.co/jtuJq2Bvmv

Paperback, 2015

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Electronic Warfare

U. S. Marine Corps

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Here's why the Marine Corps strapped a rare electronic warfare LAV to the deck of a warship https://t.co/uY7vlASRBb

Paperback, 2013

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: Tactics, U S Marine Corps

A USMC KC-130J Hercules aircraft assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics One (MAWTS-1) is prepared for takeoff during Weapons and Tactics Instructors (WTI) course at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, on Oct. 7, 2022. (📸 Lance Cpl. Kyle Chan) https://t.co/voPko7HzpE

Paperback, 1997

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

Matthew J. Morrison

Task & Purpose

U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Kilo Company, Third Recruit Training Battalion, conducts a pugil sticks bout at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Oct. 13, 2022. (📸Cpl. Anthony Pio) https://t.co/suf7ufsTE9

Hardcover, 2012

$31.99$15.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Air Force Handbook 1: Airman

U. S. Air Force

Task & Purpose

The Air Force's admin software is so bad that the top enlisted airman is trolling it https://t.co/kMrwHvJJ5S

Out of stock

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

Task & Purpose

The acclaimed author of ‘The Things They Carried’ tells us what he carried in Vietnam and carries with him still By @JamesWClark https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/tim-obrien-the-things-they-carried-vietnam-war/

Paperback, 2009

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Mass Communication Specialist: Advanced - NAVEDTRA 15011A

U. S. Navy

Task & Purpose

An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the “Blue Diamonds” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 146 makes an arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin McTaggart) https://t.co/TOPTYO0pfl

Out of stock

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Jonathan M. Katz

Task & Purpose

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire tells the wild story of a Marine legend https://t.co/nthwlGDGy0

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book