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Author:

Best, Mat, author.

Title:

Thank you for my service / Mat Best with Ross Patterson & Nils Parker.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Bantam Books,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Best, Mat.
United States.--Battalion, 2nd--Ranger Regiment, 75th.--Battalion, 2nd--Biography.
Veterans--United States--Biography.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001---Personal narratives, American.
Actors--United States--Biography.
Internet personalities--United States--Biography.
Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
United States.--Battalion, 2nd.--Ranger Regiment, 75th.--Battalion, 2nd.
Afghan War (2001-)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Actors.
Businesspeople.
Internet personalities.
Veterans.
Iraq.
United States.
2003-2011
Biography.
Personal narratives--American.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.

Other Authors:

Patterson, Ross, 1977- author.
Parker, Nils, author.

Contents:

Does anyone need a hand? -- From Green Day to green thumb -- You're in the Army, now?! -- Baby, it's cold outside, so piss on me -- A soldier came home -- Brehm and Barraza -- Tab on the shoulder, tats on the sleeve -- Head and shoulders above the rest -- I am the LAW -- Iraqi rave party -- Balad. James Balad -- Snowflakes in Los Angeles? -- Party patrol -- When life gives you an ox, make oxen -- The 100-foot war -- Hey aren't you that dude? -- Shirts & shots & shows & service -- For veterans, by veterans.

Summary:

"Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family dealing with 9/11, continuing through the intensity of four years as an Army Ranger and five years as a private military contractor, and concluding with one of the most meaningful moments in Best's life--screening a movie he wrote, produced, and starred in for soldiers deployed overseas--Best gives readers a fuller sense of the person they might only know from his major online and video persona. With equal amounts of heart and balls, this is the unapologetic, laugh-your-ass-off military book that vets and civilians alike have been waiting for"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1524796492
9781524796495

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1099541302

LCCN:

2019016176

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