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Series
Language
English
Description
'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...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Brye is a mom to four military officers, and for more than a decade she's endured countless teary goodbyes, sparse communication from boot camps and training summers, deployments, emotional airport reunions, empty chairs at Thanksgiving dinners, and sleepless hours waiting for phone calls in the night. She's navigated the complicated tangle of emotions--pride, worry, fear, hope, and deep, enduring love--that accompanies life as a military mom. In...
Author
Series
Military life volume 2
Publisher
Government Institutes
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Offers advice and guidance for couples with members of the military on marriage and relationships, discussing the challenges of being in a relationship with military personnel, counseling options that are available, deployments, financial issues, domestic violence, jobs, starting a family, depression, and other related topics.
Author
Language
English
Description
Writer Pat Conroy couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the man he'd long hated sticking up for Pat's honor shortly before the once-hated man died. That man was Donald Patrick Conroy, Pat's father. The publication of 'The Great Santini' shoved father and son farther apart than ever before. Despite this, Pat recounts how his once-abusive father stood up for his son in Donald Patrick Conroy's final days.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Relive each emotional moment from the lives of the military families at Fort Marshall, SC in the riveting fifth season. The women's friendships continue to grow stronger as they band together through their most difficult challenges yet, including life with a newborn, mid-life career changes, and the tragic loss of a loved one.
Author
Language
English
Description
Haunted by an ancestor's tale of near death on a distant battlefield, James Carl Nelson set out in pursuit of the scraps of memory of his grandfather's small infantry unit. Years of travel across the world led to the retrieval of unpublished personal papers, obscure memoirs, and communications from numerous Doughboys as well as original interviews of the descendants of his grandfather's comrades in arms. The result is a compelling tale of battle rooted...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Gomer Pyle is a sweet but not too smart Marine from Mayberry, North Carolina who is stationed at Camp Henderson near Los Angeles. Gomer's innocence, naivete and low-key demeanor often gets him into trouble, most frequently at the hands of his loud-mouthed superior, Sgt. Carter. Duke, Frankie, Lester and Larry were some of Gomer's pals and fellow enlisted men at Camp Henderson. Gomer's sometime girlfriend is Lou Anne Poovie.
17) Sword of honour
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A war story and a love story, as well as a biting satire on the emergence of the world we live in today.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a shameful past, seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne joins the U.S. Army and, in 1871, is sent to the dangerous Arizona territories, where he joins his captain and a ragtag troop in the search for a missing woman supposedly kidnapped by the Apache.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Detailing the complex personal challenges Army wives face, journalist Biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops to show what their life is really like. Biank describes what it means to be a wife and mother in a subculture that is in a constant state of readiness for war. Army wives were in the headlines in the summer of 2002 after Biank broke the story about four Army wives who were brutally murdered by their husbands in the span of six weeks...
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