JOKER ONE is a book about a Marine officer, author Donovan Campbell, who's goal was to lead a platoon of Marines into battle. When he finally got this wish, he was given a skeleton platoon. Just before their first deployment the platoon was given many untrained and unexperienced Marines to fill t...
We heard that his doctors had been amazed that he had even made it that far, given the nature and severity of his injuries. He must have been very strong, they said. He was. Bolding’s death came as a severe shock—prior to it we had all assumed that his recovery was assured. I had been checking wi...