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The Pink Marine is the story - packed with hilarity and heartbreak - of what sort of teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance and doesn't fit the traditional classification of masculinity locates popularity and self-worth in Marine Corps training. "An inspiring memoir that presents a balanced, remarkably reverent view of the Marine Corps and military services service." (Kirkus Reviews) When Greg Deal White's closest friend instructs him he's spending his summer months in Marine Corps training at Parris Island, SC, all Greg hears is "summer" and "camp". Despite dire warnings from his good friend, Greg vows to become listed on him in recruit training. He's 18, underweight, he's never run a mile - and he's homosexual. Greg's sheltered life hadn't prepared him for military services service. A prince out of drinking water, he jam-packed five suitcases since he'd never been away from home for 13 weeks. THE UNITED STATES Marines stripped him from all of that, shaved his mind and put a rifle in his hands. Initially he struggles to maintain, and frightened his solution will be discovered. But midway through, the desire to make it through and become a Marine trumps fear. He learns that everyone, exactly like in the real world, makes the service sense "different"; possibly prejudged for the colour of their pores and skin, their weight, their poverty - some have even chosen training over prison. Can a flighty, 112-pound, unmanly Texan transform into mostly of the, the proud, the Marines? Will Greg even make it through?
