{"id":5060,"date":"2014-11-26T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T04:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2014-11-25T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:22:52","slug":"reading-and-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2014\/11\/reading-and-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/static.medium.com\/embed.js\" async=\"\"><\/script>There is an interesting piece on Medium.com recently about basic training and encouraging new soldiers to read. \u00a0I read, and read a lot, and have always tried to encourage others to read, not only my fellow soldiers when I was in the Army, but people in general.<\/p>\n<p>I find that the idea of having a reading list and free copies of said books available to basic trainees to read in their less-than-copious free time is an awesome idea and I am chagrined that I did not do it when I was a Drill Sergeant at Fort Knox many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with all the titles on the list, I would remove some and add a few others, mot notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.\/gp\/product\/0142437905\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0142437905&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;linkId=MCDMBH3R4FBACIO6\">Storm of Steel<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0142437905\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.\/gp\/product\/0140048979\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0140048979&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;linkId=Y74ASBG73DC5KICB\">The Face of Battle<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0140048979\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.\/gp\/product\/0553593315\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0553593315&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;linkId=45ABCENLNO7EOB6Y\">Helmet for My Pillow<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=patsmilhisblo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0553593315\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. \u00a0That being said, the idea is an excellent one and I would hope the Army would pick up on it and actually sponsor it so that Drill Sergeants do not have to finance such a worthy idea themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The original article is linked below. \u00a0<a class=\"m-story\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chrisgingram\/4b5a4612cd1d\" data-collapsed=\"true\">KNUCKLE-DRAGGERS NEED TO READ TOO:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting piece on Medium.com recently about basic training and encouraging new soldiers to read. \u00a0I read, and read a lot, and have always tried to encourage others to read, not only my fellow soldiers when I was&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2014\/11\/reading-and-military-service\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,60,460],"tags":[150,675],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns-operations","category-contemporary-wars","category-military-strategy","tag-contemporary-war","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}