You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. General Baumum,

Bong, welcome to the American Revolution podcast.

Thanks, Mike, I appreciate.

We're here to take to talk about your book about the Marine Corps in the American Revolution.

Is this your first book?

It's my second book, action.

What's your first book about?

The first book is a contemporary piece.

It's called from the Cold War to ISIL,

One Marine's Journey.

And it basically talks about the evolving national military

strategy from the end of the Cold War until the current fight against ISIS.

Obviously as a Marine, I understand why you'd like to write a book about marine history, but the Marines do have a long and storied history spanning several centuries.

What were you specifically to the American Revolution?

It's a great question and you're right that being a marine I had a definite bias towards

the topic of which I wrote.

In the Marine Corps, our history and our tradition

is extremely important to us.

We teach our entry-level Marines

our history from the very founding of the Marine Corps all the way up until modern day operation.

We instill in our Marines that it is our responsibility to live up to the legacy, the sacrifice of the service of those who went before us.

So it was a natural for me to be able to, in my own journey, continue to study Marine Corps history

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