“Thank You for My Service” is a hilarious, poignant romp through Best’s career

Former Army Ranger and private military contractor turned YouTube sensation and entrepreneur Mat Best is no stranger to success. A founder of veteran-owned companies Article 15 Clothing, Leadslingers Spirits, and Black Rifle Coffee Company, Best also helped to create the popular “Drinkin’ Bros” Podcast, and was instrumental in the veteran-sponsored production of zombie film “Range 15,” in which Best also has an acting role.

Best can now add New York Times bestselling author to his formidable list of achievements. His debut biography, Thank You for My Service, is a rousing read that outlines the veteran’s path to his extensive accomplishments.

Thank You for My Service is packed with Best’s signature twisted humor, which will be familiar to those who have watched his patriotic, highly ballistic, and often not-safe-for-work YouTube videos. The confident, tattooed Best, who describes himself as “carved from a solid block of American handsome” does not hesitate to turn that humor on himself. Many of the book’s earliest jokes are reserved for a scrawny, high-school-aged Best, who was in the botany club, and played bass in an emo band.

Best’s motivations, and his extracurriculars, changed when he watched his brothers enter the Marine Corps in the days following September 11, 2001, and especially after they deployed to Kuwait for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.