About the Author

Lieutenant Colonel Ronald J. Brown. USMCR (Ret), is a freelance writer, a high school football coach, and an educational consultant. The author of several official histories (A Brief History of the 74th Marines, With Marines in Operation Provide Coin/on, and With Marine Forces Afloat in Desert Shield and Desert Storin), he was also a contributing essayist for the best-selling book, The Marines, and was the sole author of A Few Good Men: The Fighting Fifth Marines. After almost four years active duty from 1968 to 1971, Brown returned to teaching high school for the next three decades; intermittently, he served as an activated reservist traveling to Korea among other places. He is a combat veteran of both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf conflicts. He spent 20 years as a reservist with Mobilization Training Unit DC 7, the Reserve unit that supports the History and Museums Division. Lieutenant Colonel Brown commanded the training unit before retiring from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1996. He is the author of an earlier pamphlet in this series, Counteroffensive: U.S. Marines from Pohang to No Name Line.