Must Watch and Must Read List

[Chad Adams]

When it comes to movies that drill down on what it means to be an FE guy, few compare to Red Dawn. Even if it is drilling down on simply what we'd hope we would be. It touches on friends and family, fighting for your bro, and somehow finding incomparable courage in the face of certain death. And it's such a Gundom movie, down to the bad guys using our 4473s against us. It's of the era, so not every detail holds up. But come on, if you don't love the original Red Dawn, something's wrong with you. What say you, folks?

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[ryanahorst]

When it comes to movies that drill down on what it means to be an FE guy, few compare to Red Dawn. Even if it is drilling down on simply what we'd hope we would be. It touches on friends and family, fighting for your bro, and somehow finding incomparable courage in the face of certain death. And it's such a Gundom movie, down to the bad guys using our 4473s against us. It's of the era, so not every detail holds up. But come on, if you don't love the original Red Dawn, something's wrong with you. What say you, folks?

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I love the original Red Dawn, but I'm also one of the few who appreciated the remake as well. It was updated for the time period, and isn't as classic as the original, but I still enjoyed it.

 

[Chad Adams]

I love the original Red Dawn, but I'm also one of the few who appreciated the remake as well. It was updated for the time period, and isn't as classic as the original, but I still enjoyed it.

Yeah, everyone wanted to hate on the remake, which I get. But I found it entertaining as well. If none of us had ever seen the original, it would have gone down as at least a good film I think. But then there's that original. The epitome of a classic.

 

[Keith Wood]

I only recognize one Red Dawn…

 

[pattesonfamily]

This is a long list, with some organization to it lol. My must-reads in several categories. Its more part of a curriculum for a fully formed FE man.

Spy Novels
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Spy who came in from the Cold
Our Man in Havana
A Coffin for Dimitrios
Ashenden
The Charm School

Broader Fiction
Catch 22
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Big Sky
Lonesome Dove
The Hobbit/LOTR
The Sun Also Rises
One Second After

Outdoors
The Old Man and the Boy
Man Eaters of Kumaon
Green Hills of Africa
Barbarian Days
Horn of the Hunter
The Endurance

Business books
Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall
Find your Why
5 Dysfunctions of a Team
Radical Candor
How to win friends and influence people
7 Habits of highly effective people

Faith
The Bible
The Rest of God
Mere Christianity
The Screwtape Letters
Knowing God
Every Good Endeavor

Poetry
If
Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
Invictus
The Road Not Taken
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Do Not go Gentle in to that good night
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
And, Citizenship in a Republic (tech not a poem) but worth it.

I must mention you probably should read all of Louis L'Amour, Wilbur Smith, Alan Furst, Frank Peretti and the Doc Savage novels.

The above is a longer list - for the top 5 see what I wrote about here on FE https://fieldethos.com/recommended-reading-from-dudes-you-can-trust/

 

[b.t.kelley]

No way to make a full list for either category.

Movies
Blood Diamond
Sicario
American Psycho
Pale Rider
East Bound and Down
Any Which Way but Loose
The Ghost and The Darkness
Dumb and Dumber (will never get old)
Point Break (you know which one)

Books
Three Sips of Gin
I, Lucifer
The Call of the Wild
Touching the Void
Meditations
Cat's Cradle
The Sun Also Rises


The only Red Dawn is Swayze's Red Dawn. Wolverines!