Thank you for my service
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"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"--
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Best, Mat.
Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
Internet personalities -- United States -- Biography.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
United States. -- Army. -- Ranger Battalion, 2nd -- Biography.
Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
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Best, M., Patterson, R., & Parker, N. (2019). Thank you for my service. First edition. Bantam Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Best, Mat, Ross Patterson and Nils, Parker. 2019. Thank You for My Service. Bantam Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Best, Mat, Ross Patterson and Nils, Parker, Thank You for My Service. Bantam Books, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Best, Mat,, et al. Thank You for My Service. First edition. Bantam Books, 2019.
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