The Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading Program (CPRP) is reviewed bi-annually to ensure it remains relevant, current, and promotes professional discussions amongst all Marines. The CPRP is arranged into five categories: Commandant’s Choice, Profession of Arms, Innovation, Leadership, and Strategy. Each year, Marines are encouraged to read a minimum of five books from the Commandant’s Professional Reading List.
This year, USMC Major (Retired) James Capers Jr., a Marine Force Reconnaissance, Vietnam Combat Veteran, and hero was honored by having his memoir added to the Commandant’s list!
In 2008, Major Capers was recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in Vietnam 41 years earlier. Despite strong endorsements from two Generals and several of the men Capers served with, the recommendation was downgraded two levels at the Pentagon. No explanation was ever given.
UAP is honored to draw Presidential, Congressional, and Public attention to this Hero. Please help us get Major Capers the recognition he deserves! You can support him by picking up your own copy of his book today.
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Summary of “Faith Through the Storm: Memoirs of Major James Capers, Jr.”
This is a book about war. A war against America’s enemies, against racism, against the loss of fellow warriors in battle, and against the personal loss of family back home. This is the story of Major James Capers, Jr. (USMC Ret.) Jim was born to a family of sharecroppers in South Carolina who escaped to Baltimore, Maryland in the dead of night to escape the days of Jim Crow laws for a better life. Joining the Marines fresh out of high school, Jim had no idea that he was paving the road for future Marines, black and white alike. The first African-American Marine to receive a battlefield commission as a member of 3rd Force Recon, a new special forces unit designed specifically for the war in Vietnam; the first African-American Marine officer used on a Marine recruitment poster; co-leader of the first special forces team to attempt the rescue of American and allied POW’s held in a North Vietnamese prison; a leader in Team Broadminded, whose missions were so secret, their military records from Vietnam were not declassified until 2006; nominated for the Medal of Honor; inducted into the Commando Hall of Honor for special forces; awarded the Bronze and the Silver Stars. This book is about a man who is a true American hero, though he denies the notion. Above all, Jim is a husband, a father, a patriot, a warrior who has dealt with the tragedies of his military and personal life, always depending on his faith in God to guide him through the storm.
