The Pressure Cooker: Forging Naval Officers Through Marine Leadership, by John E. Crouch
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From 1947 until 1994, the Navy ran an officer training and commissioning program at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. Outside the main academic building hung a wood sign with gold metal lettering. It read:"Through These Doors Walk The Future Of Naval Aviation"Between the covers of this book, A Marine Corps Drill Instructor presents a collection of stories, memories and recollections provided by now seasoned, U.S. Navy Officers. 240 stories are told with the same raw intensity as experienced decades earlier when the candidates were but young men and women trying to get past their Marine Drill Instructor to earn a commission that awaited them at the finish line. The insults, threats and even rare moments of enthusiastic support are all here. You won't find examples of political correctness, generalizations or pulling punches in this book, or any coddling of the candidates; future naval aviators were prepared here, it was the most intense officer candidate school in the military.
The Pressure Cooker: Forging Naval Officers Through Marine Leadership, by John E. Crouch- Amazon Sales Rank: #310642 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-12
- Released on: 2015-11-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Spectacular. By BUTKUSF14 As a graduate of AOCS in the mid-80's, I ordered a hard copy, and downloaded the e-book version as well. I travelled on a couple of long flights recently, and finally started reading the e-book...I was literally weeping on the flight, not from some kind of DI-induced PTSD trauma flashback, but from trying to suppress my laughter, chuckling and giggling uncontrollably. I had to stop reading several times to regain my composure. The passengers unfortunate enough to be seated next to me thought I was genuinely unbalanced or crazy.I'm not sure anyone who hasn't been through AOCS or some similar kind of military training will have the same reaction, but about halfway through the rich and colorful eyewitness accounts and memories of the AOCS experience, of Naval Aviation Officer Candidates trained by the best and toughest USMC Drill Instructors, whose mission was to separate those unsuited or unfit for the rigors of Naval Aviation flight training, I've come to the conclusion that author John Crouch knocked it out of the park--at least for those of us who experienced it. Reading others' stories, perspectives and perceptions have re-kindled a flood of memories in my own mind that I had forgotten. This was an extraordinary program, and John's collection is an important record of that now-gone training..I am glad the author, a USMC Drill Instructor in his own right, stuck with what must have been a 'labor of love' project, and his vision to collect these first-person accounts and put them on paper. The result is an important account of how several generations of Naval Aviators were trained, and at times, spectacularly funnily and moving.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. and if my great great grandchildren want to know what things were like ... By Blackbeard's Ghost This book should be preserved as a part of our national history. It's a collection of stories from one of the most difficult commissioning schools in any military of any age. Most are hilarious. Many are hard to believe. Having attended AOCS myself, this will be a book that I treasure for the rest of my life, and if my great great grandchildren want to know what things were like "back in the day", hopefully they will be able to read this book and have a laugh for themselves. And a gasp.It is a collection of stories, so at times the writing isn't perfect. However, that's part of what makes it a great read. You are reading it as though you are sitting in Trader Jon's, having a beer with the guys who attended. The stories go WAY back to the '50s and go on into the '90s. If you love military history, you owe it to yourself to read this amazing book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Best Book Ever Written on the Subject! By Patrol Navigator I went through this officer candidate school in the late 1960's...and I was in the very last class that spent only 12 weeks in that amazing program; after that, it expanded to 16 weeks. Face it, the Marine Drill Instructors who ran this program (back then) had to change hippies into trainable warriors in three months. An impossible task? Nope....because Marines were in charge. The first day the DI said: "For the next three months I will be you mother, father, pastor, sister and brother. But I will not be your girlfriend, so do not even think about trying to f*ck with me!" I remember my time there at AOCS in Pensacola more vividly than just about any period of my life. Just about every single day was a new challenge, a new experience. I almost daily felt fear, trepidation, disappointment in my failures, pride in my accomplishments, excitement, being tired beyond belief and more fear. I made it through…many did not.1st SGT John Crouch (the author – and a Drill Instructor himself), did not try to fill these pages with his own memories, though some are there. Instead he spent years searching out those men (and later women) who attended this officer training program and asked them to put their memories to paper…to relive with us readers what it was like to attend arguably the toughest officer candidate training program in the world. Though slightly edited, these “stories” have been penned by many - with different writing styles and recollections. Some (of the writers) dropped out (DOR’ed) but still remember their time in AOCS, some were disqualified for physical or academic short comings but most made it through the program, follow on flight training and combat service in “the fleet.” That these writers can call with such vividness their time in AOCS and their recollection of their Drill Instructor is a testament to the impact that training and Marine leadership had on them.Reading the pages within, immediately took me back to that time and, while there is some drama, these recollections prove the theory that, mainly, you remember the fun times and the funny things…and that some things that were incredibly dramatic, scary and painful in real time are funny in later life. Can’t tell you how many times I stopped reading because I was laughing so hard.The first two photos included with this review give you a feel for the intensity of the training in the very beginning. The third photo is of a few candidates, in 1968, after they first started to get “squared away.”I ordered the ePub (digital) version which I read. I also ordered the hardcover version so that it can sit in pristine condition on the bookshelf in my office. Kudos to 1st SGT Crouch!!
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