Are you ready to jump face-first off a cliff or into a river, then
march for miles, blow up a bridge, and engage in hand-to-hand
combat with the enemy, all in a day's work? If you're nodding your
head "yes," then you might be tough enough to attend the Sapper
Leader Course, one of the most demanding training courses the
United States Army has to offer. In Grit, Guts, and C4, author Ryan
Voznick provides a raw, insider look at how he survived the
grueling twenty-eight-day training combat engineer course for
select leaders. Voznick's book not only describes the struggles of
being under intense stress but also acts as an expose of this
lesser-known military course held by the US Army Engineer School at
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Written three months after his 2008
graduation, Voznick unabashedly encourages-and possibly,
discourages-readers considering this extreme military experience.
He explains how, as an ROTC officer cadet, he prepares, only to
find himself unprepared, ultimately going on to surmount the
school's intense mental and physical challenges. Through both
personal reflections and training foibles, Voznick takes readers
deep inside the experience. He details helicopter dives,
eighty-pound-ruck runs, and tactical door explosions with an
unapologetic, defiant, third-digit salute to, as he puts it,
getting his ass kicked by Sapper School instructors. It is his
inner dialogue-the "never give up or give in" attitude instilled in
members of the US armed forces-that inspires him to ignore his
bloodied palms, fatigued muscles, and starved stomach to get
through this ultimate test of human endurance. By chronicling his
mistakes as well as his triumphs, Voznick inspires anyone facing
fear, weakness, failure, or displacement to persevere-as he
did-through seemingly insurmountable odds.
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