| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
210 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Best, Mat.
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United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 2nd -- Biography.
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Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Actors -- United States -- Biography.
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Internet personalities -- United States -- Biography.
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Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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HUMOR / Adult.
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United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 2nd. (OCoLC)fst01995372
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Afghan War (2001-) (OCoLC)fst01695175
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Iraq War (2003-2011) (OCoLC)fst01802311
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Actors. (OCoLC)fst00796296
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Businesspeople. (OCoLC)fst00842980
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Internet personalities. (OCoLC)fst01931085
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Veterans. (OCoLC)fst01165710
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Iraq. (OCoLC)fst01205757
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
2003-2011
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Personal narratives -- American.
(OCoLC)fst01424071
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Autobiographies.
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Humor.
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Author |
Patterson, Ross, 1977- author.
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Parker, Nils, author.
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| Note |
Galley title: Freedom on! |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Best, Mat, author. Thank you for my service First edition. New York : Bantam Books, [2019] 9781524796501 (DLC) 2019020166 |
| ISBN |
9781524796495 (hardcover) |
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1524796492 (hardcover) |
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