Field manuals have been around since the ancient Greeks and Romans. One General (Baron) Friedrich
Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben wrote the very first American Army field manual. The good baron was George Washington’s Inspector General, and helped train the Continental Army in 1779. Since then the US Army has published thousands of these often very dry books dealing on everything from Mountain Warfare Operations to the ever-popular Field Sanitation. Many lonely soldiers has sat bored on a CQ or radio watch post and bored him to sleep with a DA Pam, FM, or TM. One exception to this was the
colorful comic book formatted “US Army Preventive Maintenance Manual for the M16A1 Rifle”, published
by PS Magazine in a comic book form.
Read the rest (including scans of the entire book itself) at in my column at Firearms Talk.com
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
