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This is THE best book about boot camp. This tells it like it really is and was. Although the author went through it in 1995, and I went through Parris Island from November 1, 1963 to January 29, 1964, the training has changed very little. The drill instructors have passed on what they have learned over the years, to each other, it appears, because some scenarios and descriptions are virtually identical to the boot camp of 1963. Many years have passed but some things never change. What they instill into recruits is the same. The same pride.There is a review here somewhere that complains that the author does a good job of capturing boot camp but there is nothing new in it compared to other books. This book is not a novel, or a fly by night book. It is the genuine article, the real thing, and it is not supposed to be updated yearly. In my mind it is the best book about Marine Corps boot camp that you can get. I was absolutely amazed at how little boot camp has changed over the years. The same challenges, the same training, the same manner of the DIs. We had M-14s and they have M-16s now, but besides that it is the same boot camp. Pride was instilled back then and they are still doing it, and even as we speak it is still being done.No one has the training that the Marine Corps provides. No armed forces in any part of the world can possibly equal the USMC in terms of training and readiness and pride. That is why the Eagle, Globe and Anchor is what it is today, because if everyone could do it, it would mean nothing.This book is a mirror image of boot camp not only in 1995 but in 2009, and also in 1963 and all the years in between.Boot camp is timeless. This book reflects that. If you never read anything else about the Marine Corps, be sure you read this book!