Time In The Barrel
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Author | : James P. Coan |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0817319999 |
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War Con Thien, located only two miles from the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Vietnam, was a United States Marine Corps firebase that was the scene of fierce combat for months on end during 1967. Staving off attacks and ambushes while suffering from ineffectual leadership from Washington as well as media onslaughts, courageous American Marines protected this crucial piece of land at all costs. They would hold Con Thien, but many paid the ultimate price. By the end of the war, more than 1,400 Marines had died and more than 9,000 sustained injuries defending the “Hill of Angels.” For eight months, James P. Coan’s five-tank platoon was assigned to Con Thien while attached to various Marine infantry battalions. A novice second lieutenant at the time, the author kept a diary recording the thoughts, fears, and frustrations that accompanied his life on “The Hill.” Time in the Barrel: A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien offers an authentic firsthand account of the daily nightmare that was Con Thien. An enticing and fascinating read featuring authentic depictions of combat, it allows readers to fully grasp the enormity of the fierce struggle for Con Thien. The defenders of Con Thien were bombarded with hundreds of rounds of incoming rockets, mortars, and artillery that pounded the beleaguered outpost daily. Monsoon downpours turned the red laterite clay soil into a morass of oozing mud, flooded bunkers and trenches, and made Con Thien a living hell. .Being at Con Thien came to be ruefully referred to by the Marines stationed there as "time in the barrel” because they were targets as easy as fish in a barrel. More than a retelling of military movements, Coan’s engrossing narratives focus on the sheer sacrifice and misery of one Marine’s experience in Vietnam. Through his eyes, we experience the abysmal conditions the Marines endured, from monsoon rainstorms to the constant threat of impending attack. Climatic moments in history are captured through the rare, personal perspective of one particularly astute and observant participant.
Author | : Jack Carmichael |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2013-08-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1491805854 |
In April 2005, two days after my seventy-sixth birthday, I became the Protestant chaplain at California Correctional Center in Susanville, California. The warden hired me for the job of creating a faith-based rehabilitation program, taught by inmates, supported by unpaid outside volunteers. It was anticipated that it could be a rehabilitation program for the twenty-six state prisons in California, as well a challenge for the myriad jails and prisons throughout the United States. To overcome the warehousing model of incarcerating and housing inmates in prisons throughout most prison systems, it is imperative that inexpensive programs be developed to counteract the chilling effect of sparse and ineffective free-time support for the inmate population. California recidivism rates in state prisons exceed 80 percent. It is expected that its much the same across the United States. Something needs to be done to counteract this, and the CCC model is one attempt to do it. Included in this book are anecdotal examples and testimonies that point to this possibility. The challenges, or barrels, related in this attempt to change the recidivism rate at one institution tell us it wont be easy. New ideas are hard to come by in prison; the old, and tried and failed to often have the upper hand in the operation of state prisons in California. . As you follow my story, you will see how and who are the advocates and foes of change in the way prisons are operated. The story told here can benefit the families of the more than one million inmates in the prisons and jails in America. It can provide insights into the prison life for the students in the correctional curriculums in the colleges and universities of America. If the book were read by the personnel in the administration of state prisons, they might be challenged to work to change the climate in their jails and prisons.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Apples |
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Author | : George W. Everett |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1449743420 |
Join G.W. Frog and his friends in their exciting adventures: G.W. Frog and the Circus Lion G.W. Frog and the Pumpkin Patch Bandit G.W. Frog and the Haunted House G.W. Frog Meets Big Foot G.W. Frog and the Pickle-Barrel Time Machine Get all five adventures! www.gwfrog.com
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Total Pages | : 1102 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Barrels |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Containers |
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Author | : Janell Broyles |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2006-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404205437 |
Examines the history of barrel racing, basic skills involved, and some champions of this rodeo event.
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Total Pages | : 1142 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Machinery |
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Author | : Raymond J. Learsy |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005-08-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1418551821 |
Longtime commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy lifts the veil of the Mideast oil cartel, showing how OPEC manipulates the oil markets and destabilizes the world's economy. With refreshing candor and an insider's perspective, Learsy explains how OPEC: twists bogus perceptions of oil scarcity to hike prices and gain political power is compromised by Islamist terrorist connections that fuel anti-American hatred with dollars from our own wallets keeps Third-World nations in abject poverty despite their rich oil deposits and became the de facto master of Iraq's newly liberated oil fields A sharp, sweeping survey of OPEC's methods of economic dominance, this book explains how to bust the Mideast oil cartel and chart our own course toward energy independence.
Author | : Henry Beaufoy |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1528761014 |
Originally published in 1808. The author not only appreciated the advantage of the rifle in war, he also gives an exceptionally lucid account of its origins, operation and mechanics. The well illustrated contents will prove of great value to the historian, soldier and gun enthusiast. Contents Include: Of Projectiles in General Theory of Spiral Motion Qualities of the Rifle History of the Rifle Construction and Perfections of the Rifle Appendages of the Rifle Modes of Using the Rifle General Hints Loading, Aiming, Cleaning etc. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.