The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training - Paperback
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The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training
The history of a tragic event in USMC history and of how its impact led to reforms
In 1956, a Marine drill instructor led his recruit platoon on a punitive night march across Ribbon Creek, a tidal stream at the Parris Island, South Carolina, recruit depot. Six men drowned, and the resulting court-martial became a national media sensation putting the future of the corps into question. Written by a...
Keith Fleming is a native of Abbeville, South Carolina. As a U.S. Marine, he had three years enlisted service followed by ten years as an officer. As a first lieutenant, Dr. Fleming commanded a rifle platoon in the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, and the following year assumed command of a rifle company in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam. After leaving USMC in 1973, he...
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