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Author | : Father Stan Hessey |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1469128195 |
What if youre a non-combatants in the midst of combat? How can you be a Man of God, in hell? Can you walk with the Infantryman where ever he goes, share in his training, stand with him, lie with him, duck with him, support him? Why is the soldier there? Why are you there? Is there anything helpful in the Bible that cant be found in Playboy? The military sends its chaplains off to war with its soldiers, some of whom are conscripts, yet chaplains are volunteers. Can you speak of love and peace in the midst of bombs and bullets and booby-traps, and the stinking sight of blood and bits of yours and theirs in pain, dying and dead? Walking with Grunts is about one such Padres confusions, and the men of one such Battalion, at war in a place many back home thought they should not be.
Author | : Mary Roach |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393245454 |
A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
Author | : Stan Hessey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Military chaplains |
ISBN | : 9781453579985 |
What if you're a non-combatants in the midst of combat? How can you be a Man of God, in hell? Can you walk with the Infantryman where ever he goes, share in his training, stand with him, lie with him, duck with him, support him? Why is the soldier there? Why are you there? Is there anything helpful in the Bible that can't be found in Playboy? The military sends its chaplains off to war with its soldiers, some of whom are conscripts, yet chaplains are volunteers. Can you speak of love and peace in the midst of bombs and bullets and booby-traps, and the stinking sight of blood and bits of yours and theirs in pain, dying and dead? Walking with Grunts is about one such Padre's confusions, and the men of one such Battalion, at war in a place many back home thought they should not be.
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Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780988600720 |
Author | : Kyle Longley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2020-05-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000070301 |
Now in its second edition, Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier’s experience in Vietnam by focusing on the day-to-day experiences of front-line troops. The book delves into the Vietnam combat soldier’s experience, from the decision to join the army, life in training and combat, and readjusting to civilian life with memories of war. By utilizing letters, oral histories, and memoirs of actual veterans, Kyle Longley and Jacqueline Whitt offer a powerful insight into the minds and lives of the 870,000 "grunts" who endured the controversial war. Important topics such as class, race, and gender are examined, enabling students to better analyze the social dynamics during this divisive period of American history. In addition to an updated introduction and epilogue, the new edition includes expanded sections on military chaplains, medics, and the moral injury of war. A new timeline provides details of major events leading up to, during, and after the war. A truly comprehensive picture of the Vietnam experience for soldiers, this volume is a valuable and unique addition to military history courses and classes on the Vietnam War and 1960s America.
Author | : Miles Vining |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1526767872 |
Two marines share their experiences of serving in Afghanistan and dealing with the shock of returning home to civil society. The Marines of First Battalion, Ninth Marines earned their macabre moniker “The Walking Dead” in the Vietnam War. Into Helmand with the Walking Dead follows the experiences of two Marine infantrymen from 1/9 fighting in Afghanistan. Following the 11 September attacks in 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom catalyzed the longest war in United States history. The lives of thousands of Afghans, Americans, and many others were forever altered due to the ensuing war. The book is a brutally honest portrayal of life and death in the Marine infantry both at war in Afghanistan and upon returning to the home front, where issues of reintegration and suicide become a reality. This is the tale of the young Americans who became infantrymen and conducted America’s foreign policy in its most ruthless and straightforward manner. But war, in and of itself, is only playing a small part. The culture and environment from which they reentered civil society would leave them uncertain, and confused as to the cataclysm they had just left. This book is a testimony to their experience and the legacy of war on their generation.
Author | : Philip Ardagh |
Publisher | : Nosy Crow |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0857630709 |
The first in the hilarious series from Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning author Philip Ardagh and illustrator of The Gruffalo, Axel Scheffler. Mr and Mrs Grunt, who are neither clean nor clever, live with their adopted in fact, abducted son, Sunny, in a donkey-drawn caravan somewhere or other at some time that is a bit like now but not exactly now. Sunny is an oddlooking boy, what with his left ear being higher than his right ear and that kind of sticky-up hair which NEVER goes flat, even if you massage glue into it and then jump on it. Together the unusual family find themselves in frankly improbable but very funny adventures involving bendy railings, double-barrelled shotguns, full-fat yoghurt and, always, a beard of bees.
Author | : Jason John Tyler |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-10-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524555649 |
Christine and Emma are driven to the edge. Erby develops a thirst for blood and Priscilla senses the desire to be chopped into pieces. The snakes are back. Raquel can feel them, tearing at her insides. Franks urge to gas Christine has returned and Marys dog, Brutus, has developed a fondness for human flesh. The coming is near. At a hotel where the dead lurk, Tiger twists the arm of his friend, Billy, into shady dealings. Together, they are drawn into a ghostly world where a battle for survival ensues, taking them to the brink, in the ultimate test of friendship. Learn the terrifying truths behind the changing and discover what drove them to the edge. Enter the lives of the, once good, and journey onto a dark road of sucked in faces and outstretched arms, into the hearts and minds of two boys, young men, in a timeless world of horror.
Author | : Richard Kessler with j. liberkowski ph.d. |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1365211568 |
"There was a saying that popped back into my mind the other day that was made by a war corespondent over in Vietnam. He said, 'Army pilots are God's lunatics.' Thinking about everything I've done, he was right." In this memoir/biography Richard Kessler takes us from the time he was 17 and heading off to Vietnam to the events of Desert Storm where he was one of four chopper pilots who began the conflict. Being raised in a family that only knew Air Force and Army bases as home, this war hero tells tales of horror, humor, suspense, routine, misery, joy, duty, courage, and satisfaction for jobs well done. Please join Richard as he grows from grunt to pilot, you'll love the journey!
Author | : Weston Ochse |
Publisher | : Rebellion Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 1295 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1786181835 |