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Publisher : U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Our First Tour of Duty 4th Special United States Naval Construction Battalion written by and published by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061861855
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Tour of Duty written by Douglas Brinkley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America’s most intriguing politicians—the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004—and its profound effects on his career and life In Tour of Duty, Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry’s career and deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S. atrocities in Vietnam and the bombing of Cambodia. Using new information acquired from the recently released Nixon tapes, Brinkley reveals how White House aides Charles Colson and H.R. Haldeman tried to discredit Kerry. Refusing to be intimidated, Kerry started running for public office, eventually becoming a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. Covering more than four decades, this is the first full-scale definitive account of Kerry’s journey from war to peace. In writing this riveting, action-packed narrative, Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry well in Vietnam. Kerry also relegated to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam and his voluminous “war notes” journals, notebooks, and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war. This material was provided without restriction, to be used at Brinkley’s discretion, and has never before been published.
Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824834704
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Tour of Duty written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Alternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603-1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of enforced elite mobility in world history. It required the daimyo to divide their time between their domains and the city of Edo, where they waited upon the Tokugawa shogun. Based on a prodigious amount of research in both published and archival primary sources, Tour of Duty renders alternate attendance as a lived experience, for not only the daimyo but also the samurai retainers who accompanied them. Beyond exploring the nature of travel to and from the capital as well as the period of enforced bachelorhood there, Constantine Vaporis elucidates-for the first time-the significance of alternate attendance as an engine of cultural, intellectual, material, and technological exchange. Vaporis argues against the view that cultural change simply emanated from the center (Edo) and reveals more complex patterns of cultural circulation and production taking place between the domains and Edo and among distant parts of Japan. What is generally known as "Edo culture" in fact incorporated elements from the localities. In some cases, Edo acted as a nexus for exchange; at other times, culture traveled from one area to another without passing through the capital. As a result, even those who did not directly participate in alternate attendance experienced a world much larger than their own. Vaporis begins by detailing the nature of the trip to and from the capital for one particular large-scale domain, Tosa, and its men and goes on to analyze the political and cultural meanings of the processions of the daimyo and their extensive entourages up and down the highways. These parade-like movements were replete with symbolic import for the nature of early modern governance. Later chapters are concerned with the physical and social environment experienced by the daimyo's retainers in Edo; they also address the question of who went to Edo and why, the network of physical spaces in which the domainal samurai lived, the issue of staffing, political power, and the daily lives and consumption habits of retainers. Finally, Vaporis examines retainers as carriers of culture, both in a literal and a figurative sense. In doing so, he reveals the significance of travel for retainers and their identity as consumers and producers of culture, thus proposing a multivalent model of cultural change.
Author : United States. Navy. 4th Naval Construction Battalion (Special)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Our First Tour of Duty written by United States. Navy. 4th Naval Construction Battalion (Special) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reid Hoffman
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 162527579X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Alliance written by Reid Hoffman and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestelling guide for managers and executives. Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee. The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts like a free agent. The solution? Stop thinking of employees as either family or as free agents. Think of them instead as allies. As a manager you want your employees to help transform the company for the future. And your employees want the company to help transform their careers for the long term. But this win-win scenario will happen only if both sides trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and mutual benefit. Sadly, trust in the business world is hovering at an all-time low. We can rebuild that lost trust with straight talk that recognizes the realities of the modern economy. So, paradoxically, the alliance begins with managers acknowledging that great employees might leave the company, and with employees being honest about their own career aspirations. By putting this new alliance at the heart of your talent management strategy, you’ll not only bring back trust, you’ll be able to recruit and retain the entrepreneurial individuals you need to adapt to a fast-changing world. These individuals, flexible, creative, and with a bias toward action, thrive when they’re on a specific “tour of duty”—when they have a mission that’s mutually beneficial to employee and company that can be completed in a realistic period of time. Coauthored by the founder of LinkedIn, this bold but practical guide for managers and executives will give you the tools you need to recruit, manage, and retain the kind of employees who will make your company thrive in today’s world of constant innovation and fast-paced change.
Author : Vickey Robinson
Publisher : Amazon elite publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book South Korea Tours of Duty written by Vickey Robinson and published by Amazon elite publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vickey Joins the Military Series is a story of how a call to serve went from two to twenty years. The books depict the journey from the initial decision to join the military through the many stops along the way. In this series of books, you will get a front row seat to how a 30-year-old journalist made a U-turn onto a vastly different career path. The tours of duty would not be a straight path of European tours back-to-back or back-to-back stateside tours. The reader will zigzag across countries and continents with the author, getting a first-hand look at a very interesting and dynamic career. The journey traverses across twelve countries, three continents, and varies other locales. Each book in the eight book series travels through varies duty stations reviewing moments that put a spotlight on how a two-year enlistment led to a twenty-year career.
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ISBN 13 : 9781610595261
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Tour of Duty written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 50 true narratives by both veterans and active duty personnel spans four wars. This is a book that delivers exceptional tales to stir patriotism, laughter and enthusiasm: - A Vietnam Veteran recounts a harrowing night hoist where his Medevac helicopter plummets to the ground. - A Marine adrift and hungry in the middle of an ocean, improvises. - A Fighter Pilot flying dangerous missions in the South Pacific learns why a dog really is a man's best friend.
Author : John Cervone
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608443868
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book How I Spent My 59th Summer Or My Tour of Duty in Iraq. written by John Cervone and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811768791
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Tours of Duty written by Michael Lee Lanning and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW posts—stories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war. Raw, often gut-wrenching, sometimes funny, these war stories describe slices of individual tours of duty, from the firefights to the friendships, and capture the kaleidoscope of the American experience in Vietnam.
Author : Steve P. Danko Sr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491778261
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Tour of Duty written by Steve P. Danko Sr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police officers put their lives on the line every day: They have one of the most dangerous jobs in the worldespecially the ones that work in inner cities like Baltimore. Steve P. Danko Sr. knows that all too well: Born and raised in Baltimore, he joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1962 and served until 1987. He saw the city set ablaze during the riots of 1968. He had friends in uniform that were injured or killed. He arrested armed robbery suspects, numerous purse-snatchers and thieves, and engaged in routine police work day after dayand he survived. In this memoir, he shares a candid account of being a police officer from the day he joined the force to the day he retired. Throughout his career, he made life-or-death decisions in split seconds. He also had the privilege of serving with the elite Homicide Division, rubbing elbows with some of the smartest detectives in the city and trying to track down murderers, including a serial killer who dismembered his victims. Get an inside look at the remarkable acts of courage and sacrifice that police officers display on an almost daily basis in Tour of Duty.
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Publisher : U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Tour of Duty: 103 Naval Cosntruction Battalion, 1943 - 1945 written by and published by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Mitchell
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1642985740
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
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 : Leeland Shelly Nash
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 103916871X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Horses of Sierra Leone written by Leeland Shelly Nash and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping and painful memoir, Leeland Shelly Nash recounts her first tour of duty as a UN military observer in Sierra Leone while the country transitions from a brutal civil war to the election of a new government. As if acclimating to the stresses of her first overseas deployment in a country that is still on the brink of implosion is not enough she must also contend with gender discrimination and covert actions by someone seeking her repatriation back to Canada for reasons beyond simple sexism. Having engaged in similar struggles throughout her military career, she refuses to back down. While forced to second guess the next actions of her comrades she strives to continue to do her job and make a difference to the people around her in the mission, and to find hope in the midst of her discouraging environment.
Author : Vickey Robinson
Publisher : Amazon elite publishers
ISBN 13 : 1964422116
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Stateside Tours of Duty written by Vickey Robinson and published by Amazon elite publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vickey Joins the Military Series is a story of how a call to serve went from two to twenty years. The books depict the journey from the initial decision to join the military through the many stops along the way. In this series of books, you will get a front row seat to how a 30-year-old journalist made a U-turn onto a vastly different career path. The tours of duty would not be a straight path of European tours back-to-back or back-to-back stateside tours. The reader will zigzag across countries and continents with the author, getting a first-hand look at a very interesting and dynamic career. The journey traverses across twelve countries, three continents, and varies other locales. Each book in the eight book series travels through varies duty stations reviewing moments that put a spotlight on how a two-year enlistment led to a twenty-year career.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Total Pages : 1592 pages
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Publisher : U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
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