Smith '95 Releases Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir

Sean M. Smith '95 released "Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir". A lighthearted memoir of the unlikeliest sort – the tale of one man’s long, strange trip through West Point and the decidedly unglamorous world of military intelligence. Sean was a skinny teenager with one good eye and marginal athletic ability who hated camping. It never occurred to anyone who knew him that he’d pursue a career in the Army. Nevertheless, he was accepted to West Point, and almost flunked out immediately for being bad at gymnastics and analyzing poetry. Eventually he got a pretty good handle on being a cadet and graduated, only to embark on a military intelligence career that was a lot like a James Bond movie – if James Bond slept in tents, ate bad food, and chugged black coffee and antihistamines to get through the day. In short, Rank Absurdity is a military memoir of a completely different stripe – frank and irreverent, told by someone with an inability to take themselves too seriously. Available from Amazon.