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Könyv Outside the Gate Richard Accordino

Outside the Gate

A Coast Guard Memoir of Mischief, Grief, and Coming Home

Szerző: Richard Accordino
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Independently published
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 30. 09. 2026
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When 18-year-old Richard Accordino, an angry, aimless kid from New Jersey, joined the U.S. Coast Gua...

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Szerző
Richard Accordino
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
98
EAN
9798175318518
Enbook ID
54028420
Kiadó
Independently published
Súly
144
Méretek
152 x 229 x 5

Teljes leírás

When 18-year-old Richard Accordino, an angry, aimless kid from New Jersey, joined the U.S. Coast Guard, he wasn't looking for honor; he was just looking for a way out. He landed in 1970s Hawaii with no mission and a set of orders that defined his life: "FFS"-For Further Assignment.

What he found wasn't the heroic service of recruitment posters, but a chaotic, hilarious, and often dangerous world of misfits governed by what he calls the "soft bigotry of low expectations".

Outside the Gate is an unbelievable-but-true account of the military life you don't see. It's a world where bored enlisted men, fueled by ten-cent liquor on a hazardous island, get a drunken tour of a nuclear missile control room. It's a place where a "Clash of Fools" boarding party, high on hashish, confronts an angry fisherman, and where "Operation Capitalism" means smuggling marijuana to Midway Island-only to get raided by Marines and kicked off the island.

But the gallows humor and barracks pranks come to a sudden, heartbreaking stop with a single phone call in the middle of the night. A profound family tragedy forces the chaotic sailor to finally find his way home.

A stunningly honest, funny, and powerful story, Outside the Gate is a moving memoir about the search for purpose and what it truly means to find your place to belong.