J. A. Holland

J. A. Holland is the author of Causeway to Paradise: The Making of a Marine on Parris Island: A Memoir of a Series Commander, published in 2025. The book is presented as a memoir of Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island in the late 1980s.

According to the author biography published with the book, he served in the United States Marine Corps as an infantry platoon commander with E Company 2/3 in Kaneohe, Hawaii, and later as K Company Commander for 3rd Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island, South Carolina. That same biography also says he later worked as a Law Enforcement Professional with III MEF in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and as a training officer for the General Directorate of Narcotics in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

His writing appears to be grounded in direct experience, with a focus on the pressures, absurd moments, and hard lessons of military training. Public book listings also connect the name J. A. Holland with earlier military-related titles, though the available sources do not make it clear whether those works belong to the same author.