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May 3, 2022
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss
In Tribe of Mentors, each short chapter is composed of a subject’s responses to up to 11 of Ferriss’ questions. Each is filled with encouraging advice or recommendations. The subjects pick which questions they answer. I find reading 1-3 interviews a great way to get into a positive mindset before bed each night. The book provides exposure to a wide
Trinity by Leon Uris
Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet
David Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate selected for command of a submarine that was known for poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention in the fleet. Marquet was a submariner trained on a different class of sub, and quickly realized that his inexperience and his crew’s culture to do exactly what they were told was a potentially
Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard History by Robert Frump
Off the coast of Cape Cod in 1950, a February blizzard tore not one but two oil tankers in half. This is the suspenseful true story of a U.S. Coast Guard captain and his small crew who were called out to rescue the tanker crews without a cutter or chopper or a sea plane. But Captain Bernie Weber knew well the infamous Coast Guard motto: “You have
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Dana
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Another shining example of knowing your purpose is in story of Louie Zamperini in Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken. Zamperini and his Army Air Forces aircrew were on a search mission over the Pacific, one like many of our Coast Guard crews execute each and every day, when their plane went down in 1943. After close to fifty days lost at sea, he was
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
Until the Sea Shall Free Them by Robert Frump
Upstream by Dan Heath
USCG Air Station and Group Astoria by Suzan L. Glen