ShadowSpear Travelling Periodical Program (STRAPP)

Funding is the Holy Grail. Assume another units mission (and their funding) and your empire grows, read some of the WW II stories regarding Generals (who always seem to be after glory) and you'll see it never ends. If I can get your funds, then I can divert your funds to a mission that is more important (i.e. my units current mission).

No matter how much I see it, I'm always surprised by it. Funding is power. Doesn't matter which side of the aisles you're from, grabbing more funding is a serious priority. Drives me nuts. I'm sure my own staff will be glad when they don't have to listen to me yell about ROI anymore. I've turned down taking over other departments and their funding just because it didn't make any fiscal sense. I'm an odd bird, I know.

I have a few more books to put up, as well as still having all the books I initially offered up. If I get confirmation and addresses by tomorrow morning I can send them out tomorrow afternoon.

Here's everything in one list:

Walking Point-Chief James Watson
Somalia on $5 A Day- Martin Stanton
Combat Swimmer- Captain Robert A. Gormly, USN (Ret.)
First SEAL- Roy Boehm
ST 31-91B, US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook, 1982- US Army
The Templar Legacy- Steve Berry
The Warrior Elite- Dick Couch
Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America- Mark Levin
Cryptonomicon- Neal Stephenson
The Finishing School- Dick Couch
The Bridge At Dong-Ha- John Grider Miller
Inside Delta Force- Eric L. Haney, CSM, USA (Ret.)
Reckless Disregard- Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, USAF (Ret.)

I am very interested "The Warrior Elite". I'll put my books up Monday Evening (Drill this weekend).
Reed

PM me a shipping address and I'll get it out to you.

I have

"Not a Good Day to Die - The untold Story of Operation Anaconda" by Sean Naylor
"The New Terrorism - Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction" by Walter Laqueur
"Biohazard" by Ken Alibek

In addition to these, I'll put up Tides Of War by Steven Pressfield. Just finished it and it's not Gates Of Fire, but still a good read.

My starter contributions to the STRAPP.

"First In, An insider's acount of how the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan." by Gary Schroen

"Roberts Ridge" by Malcolm MacPherson

"Boots on the Ground by Dusk, My Tribute to Pat Tillman" by Mary Tillman

"Masters of Chaos" by Linda Robinson

I have more, I just have to find them.
Reed

Shipped out some (very overdue) books to CDG and reed11b yesterday. Hope you fellas enjoy!

Updated list:
Jawbreaker- Gary Bernsten
Pursuit of Honor- Vince Flynn
Tides of War- Steven Pressfield
Walking Point-Chief James Watson
Somalia on $5 A Day- Martin Stanton
Combat Swimmer- Captain Robert A. Gormly, USN (Ret.)
First SEAL- Roy Boehm
ST 31-91B, US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook, 1982- US Army
The Templar Legacy- Steve Berry
Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America- Mark Levin
Cryptonomicon- Neal Stephenson
The Bridge At Dong-Ha- John Grider Miller
Inside Delta Force- Eric L. Haney, CSM, USA (Ret.)
Reckless Disregard- Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, USAF (Ret.)

Recieved the books from CDG and Deathy McDeath. Thanks, I'll put the books back up for shipping as soon as I have read them. I still have the books I listed still currently available. I am suprised that more folks have not used this awesome offer.
Reed

Agreed. I would take more books, but there haven't been too many posted that I haven't already read.

I'd be taking a few books from each list, but I still have About Face (800+ pages) and Once an Eagle (1200+ pages) to read, along with Lions of Kandahar and a new book I was just sent. Getting through mine as quickly as I can. I don't want to monopolize anyone's reading material.

In the spirit of the STRAPP program, I'd like to offer my Shadowspear Sureptious Santa gift back to the community now that I've finished with it.
One copy of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - available.

I'll take it if someone hasn't claimed it already.

Nope, not yet. PM your addy please.

I am in the process of moving and came across a lot of books to put up. For the sake of readability, I made a PDF with a list, broken down into Non-Fiction and Fiction categories. Given the amout of books involved, I may ask the receiver to pay shipping costs. After a couple weeks, if nothing is really going, I will just donate the books to a thrift store. I wanted to give SS first crack at them.

Before you donate to a thrift store, would you consider donating to your local USO? Most of them, especially on bases or in airports have free libraries and are always in need of good condition books.

LL

I certainly would. I was going to donate them to the local DAV (should have specified) thrift store, so now maybe I'll donate half to each. Great idea! I hadn't even thought of that.