Stateside Soldier

Author : Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033964
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stateside Soldier written by Aileen Kilgore Henderson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY who has ever done such a daring thing as I have done, twenty-two-year-old Aileen Kilgore of Brookwood, Alabama, wrote in her diary in January 1944, after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. From basic training in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to her discharge in late 1945, Kilgore served as one of more than 150,000 American women who joined the Women's Army Corps - the first group of women other than nurses to serve in the ranks of the United States Army. Aileen Kilgore Henderson has now collected and edited diary entries and personal letters that recount in an engaging narrative style her twenty-three months of experiences in the army. Recording the excitement and anxiety of enlisting, along with the camaraderie, challenges, and monotony of military life and labor, Henderson had a keen eye for the newness of her undertakings. She worked as one of only six female airplane mechanics at Ellington Air Force Base and as a photo lab technician, and she provides a detailed document of daily life in the service. Additionally, Henderson reveals the public scrutiny and criticism WAC members faced as they assumed nontraditional roles. A fascinatin

Author : Neil Mitchell
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1642985740
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stateside Tour of Duty written by Neil Mitchell and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Moultrie is drafted into the US Army at the height of the Vietnam War. By dumb luck, the new lieutenant avoids being shipped to Vietnam and is assigned to Fort Benjamin McCulloch, Texas. As a pencil pusher for the military police on base, he is safe from the mortal perils of ambushes and booby traps in Southeast Asia, yet he faces other perils almost daily in his mostly desk job stateside. His poorly disciplined unit more resembles the Keystone Cops than professional law enforcement personnel. Lieutenant Moultrie finds himself surrounded by incompetent or corrupt commanding officers, and he never knows when the mind-numbing tedium of his job will suddenly erupt into a crazy, senseless episode in which people are killed and military careers are destroyed. Nick finds refuge and solace in a few friends and honorable commanders whom he can trust. Seeking relief from loneliness, he looks up a buxom girlfriend (Samantha Starr) with whom he had a fling in college, and, while on a few days' leave, proposes to her. Soon he finds himself enjoying the pleasures and tiptoeing through the minefields of matrimony. Gradually his lust for what he first regarded as a sex object turns into genuine love for a peer and an intelligent, intuitive friend. A terrifying dream six months into her first pregnancy convinces Samantha she will die if she gives birth in the ramshackle Army hospital. She goes to live with her parents, where the dream proves prophetic as she narrowly escapes death even in the better-equipped Phoenix hospital. When a callous Red Cross official refuses to inform Nick of these developments, he explodes in anger and retribution, resulting in persecution from his superiors in command. The final insult is his being relieved of duty for a very minor infraction committed while saving the lives of his men in a shootout with an antiwar terrorist group. Nick must somehow find a way to avoid ending his military service in disgrace. As he leaves Fort McCulloch a much wiser-and jaded-man, Nick looks back on the unbelievable events he has endured. His entertaining tale is humorous, eye-opening, and unexpectedly uplifting.

Author : David Cortright
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780385110839
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers in Revolt written by David Cortright and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the evidence of increasing discontent within the U.S. armed services during the Vietnam War, discusses what has happened to the military establishment since the war's end, and proposes still further changes to bring the military in line with modern society.

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Download or read book Soldiers written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Walters
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982214414
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Soldier’s Journey to Vietnam and Back written by Paul Walters and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the journey a young man took to find his identity. He had a strong sense of patriotism and believed that his path was toward the military and service in Vietnam. He subsequently enlisted in the army and volunteered to fight in Vietnam. After serving his one-year tour as a grunt, he volunteered to extend his tour and flew as a door gunner on a helicopter gunship. When he returned to the States, he became a drill sergeant, training soldiers to serve in combat in Vietnam. The book chronicles the young man’s journey from boyhood to a man. His experiences in Vietnam helped shape the man he became.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Military Dental Care
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dental Care Needs of Military Dependents written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Military Dental Care and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 18. Considers H.R. 11363 and related H.R. 2821, to create an equitable dental plan for active and retired military personnel and their dependents.

Author : Peter S. Kindsvatter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Soldiers written by Peter S. Kindsvatter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning and despair. This book synthesizes the wartime experiences of American soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training or weaponry.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2816 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 2816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1194 pages
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Download or read book Military personnel, Title IV written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: