Maggot Author:Robert Flanagan A thousand miles from the nearest war zone -- in a foreign country call the U.S. Marine Corps, a few good men are finding out what living hell is all about. The place: Parris Island, S.C. The time: basic training. For Tom Adamczyk and Joe Waite -- two of the seventy raw recruits of Platoon 197 -- it’s a bizarre and violent journey into deg... more »radation, fear, and confusion under the onslaught of drill instructor Sgt. Maguire. Maguire is out to turn lowly maggots into Marines -- and he'll use any means he can. But when Maguire crosses the line between cruelty and sadism, and an official investigation is launched, each man is forced to make a choice between the truth and a lie. And for Adamczyk and Waite the choice will shape the rest of their lives -- not as maggots, or Marines, but as men.« less