UNCOMMON MEN: The Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps (inscri. to George Romney)

Description: NF/NF. (White Mane Publishing Company, 1993). 1st Edition. Photographs, appendices, index, 357 pages.Inscribed by author to George Romney, former governor of Michigan and father of Mitt Romney. "To George Romney -- a great public servant and a valued friend. Jack." Chapin served as special assistant to Romney when he was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.This book fills a void in the literature of Marine Corps leadership. Supplying the biographies of the first eleven men to hold the proud title of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Uncommon Men offers new insights into the senior command levels of the United States fighting elite. This book portrays not only the lives of those pioneers, but also gives us a social history of the Corps since 1942 as only a Marine could tell it. Using interviews and personal comments, official documents, and family photographs and correspondence, among other sources, the author, retired Marine Corps Captain John C. Chapin, has tapped resources not available to the traditional historian. His stories include accounts of these men s participation in battles from the World War II island campaigns through the responsibilities the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps met in the recent war in the Persian Gulf. But peace time challenges have also tested the skills of the noncommissioned officer often called "The Enlisted Man's General". Reductions in size and other peace time economies only added to the problems those enlisted leaders had to face and help solve. Drugs, social experimentation that threatened the Marines high standards, low morale and discipline problems, and the ever-present need to supervise the Corps recruit training, are all issues which Chapin addresses. The Sergeants Major of the Corps come from all parts of the country. Chapin reminds us of their humanity, their families and off-duty friendships and hobbies, and how they rose through the ranks.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Captain John C. Chapin earned a bachelor of arts degree with honors in history from Yale University in 1942 and was commissioned later that year. He served as a rifle platoon leader in the 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division, and was wounded in action during the assault landings on Roi-Namur and Saipan.~~~ Transferred to duty at the Historical Division, Headquarters Marine Corps, he wrote the first official histories of the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions. Moving to reserve status at the end of World War II, he earned a master's degree in history at George Washington University with a thesis on "The Marine Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1922."~~~ As a volunteer at the Marine Corps Historical Center, Chapin authored A History of VMFA-115. for one of the Marine Corps' better-known squadrons.

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