The Richwood Report

If you are looking for a quick survey of a subject, you might want to look at this site. It is a collection of Navy and Marine Corps manuals and most of it is available online and searchable. All the things you might expect, like weapons and motor vehicles are there, but a lot more. When you think about it, the military needs people to do anything people do in civilian life: cooks, welders, engineers, mathematicians, administrators, electronics technicians, plumbers--you get the idea. There are manuals for all these things and more. I checked out the cooking department and found 1000 recipe cards and some of them look pretty interesting. They seem mostly to be scaled for 100 servings but quantities can be adjusted for family-sized cooking. You may be expecting that many sometime! Take a look at this one. On a more businesslike note, the section on administration has has a lot of business sense in the Navy Customer Service Manual. Try this chapter on attitude and courtesy.