Glory: Wars Never End. It's Just the Shooting Part That Stops.

by Frank Werner

Glory is a story about United States Marines, set sometime in the future. Iran gets the bomb and life will never be the same. Thus inspired and emboldened, Jihadi terrorists instigate an epoch of global chaos. Local terrorists murder the protagontist Retired Marine Master Sargent Tage Johansson's family. Seeking closure, he reenlists. “Flying 3000 feet above the sea and closing in on Babar, I saw the glistening wakes of landing craft lined up for their final approach. The landing force had yet to come under hostile fire. Moments later, while passing over the beach, I could see the first wave of amphibious assault amtracks crossing the white sands of Babar’s shore. Surreal beyond imagination, it’s exactly 0730, an adrenaline drenched moment of testosteronic glory a Marine would be ready to die for. We would be over our LZ in less than two minutes.” -MSgt Tage Johansson, Episode 35 The M-18 A4 series replaced previous models like the M-18 A1 claymore type Anti Personnel Mine, which fired a load of 700 steel pellets at a velocity of 3000 feet per second. It fires a projectile load of 1000 flechettes at a velocity of 3500 feet per second. Retired Marine Master Sergeant Frank Werner served his country from 1954 through 1974. Tours of duty included Second Battalion, Fourth Marines, Second Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, First Battalion, SecondMarines, Second Shore Party Battalion and Units Attached to Third Battalion, Ninth Marines and Third Battalion, Sixth Marines

446 pages, Paperback

Published March 11, 2021