ちょっと共感できる本。

先日、普段のマンガではなく、めずらしく普通の本を読みました。…私を知っている人にとって、とてもショッキングのハズ。(*_*)

ラノベの翻訳を嫌がるぐらい絵の少ない又は全く無い本がとても苦手です。翻訳者としてはありえない性質だと自覚してます、ハイ。でも一応私が構想している軍事系マンガのための研究資料として読んだんです。じゃないと絶対読みません。ハハ(^^;

今回読んだ本は「The Few. The Proud. 〜 Women Marines in Harm's Way」（数少ない誇り高き者　〜　危険にさらされた女性海兵隊員）です。

戦場へ展開した様々な女性海兵隊員の体験談が記載されてて、ところどころ「私もそう思った」「あるあるそーゆーコト」とつい共感してしまいました。(^^;

実は私、一度も戦場に展開しないまま除隊したんですが、やはり時期と場所関係無く女性兵士ならではの考え方、志向、悩みや事情は共通するんですね。

それと、兵士らの会話から、当時のイラク状況が少し見えます。

しまいにゃ、本の中に私がブートキャンプにいた頃の隊長さんがいました。細かく言えば、私が所属していた小隊より上の中隊長でした。写真を見てびっくり。世の中すごく狭いですね。(^_^)

The Few. the Proud.: Women Marines in Harm's Way (Praeger Security International)

A book I can relate to.
The other day, instead of reading manga like I usually do, I read a regular book. I'm sure people who know me well are probably shocked by this fact. (*_*)

I really don't read books with few/no pictures so much that I groan when I have to translate light novels. Yes, I admit this tendency is not helpful as a translator.) But I read is as part of my research to help shape a military manga I'm working on. Otherwise, I wouldn't even pick it up. lol (^^;

The book I read was "The Few. The Proud.: Women Marines in Harm's Way."

The book mainly collected interviews of women Marines who were deployed to combat, and there were several places where I nodded in agreement, "Oh yeah, I thought so, too" or "Yeah, I went through that also." (^^;

I finished my enlistment without ever going to combat, but I think that regardless of time or place, female military personnel tend to share similiar thoughts, ideals, issues, and situations.

Also, through the statements made my the Marines, you could understand a little about the situation in Iraq during that time.

To top it off, I saw one of my commanders from boot camp in the book. Specifically, she was the company commander above my platoon. I was totally surprised. What a really small world. (^_^)