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Book Synopsis WESTPAC: A Sailor's Story by : Joe Brulotte
Download or read book WESTPAC: A Sailor's Story written by Joe Brulotte and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book After 47 years of service, the veteran aircraft carrier USS Midway is now permanently moored as a museum in San Diego, California. Just a few yards from the ship stands the Kissing Sailor statue. If he had been a former enlisted Midway sailor, he would have probably kissed a girl in every port. While countless books tell the stories of high-ranking naval officers, such as Captain John Paul Jones, Admiral David Farragut, and Admiral Chester Nimitz, this book tells the story of the Navy as seen through the eyes of an enlisted sailor who served on the Midway during the Cold War. Armed with a swab and a bucket, he bumbled and stumbled his way on the ship in search of knowledge and adventure on the high seas and lands of the Far East, with the hopes that he wouldn’t fall overboard before he got to the next exciting port. About the Author Joe Brulotte served as an Aerographer’s Mate on the USS Midway (CV-41) for two years. He began the study of weather at the age of 15, worked as a weather specialist in the U.S. Navy for eight years, and has continued the study of meteorology and weather over the past fifty years. He holds a degree in science and mathematics, as well as a Master’s Degree in U.S. Military History.
Download or read book WestPac Sailor written by Stan Cook and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Drunken Sailor by : Charles Torres
Download or read book Confessions of a Drunken Sailor written by Charles Torres and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Torres Stricken by poverty in a small southern town, with little alternatives for college, the navy was a way out. An avenue to advance himself, would his experiences teach him about life, pride and perseverance while forging life-long friendships? Would Charlie realize the value of the American Dream as he and his shipmates explore the ports of Asia. His experiences take the reader into the debaucheries’ night clubs of Subic Bay Philippines and to the bar brawls of Hong Kong, to the cold base towns of South Korea and the bright lights of Tokyo Japan as he learns the meaning of the true American Dream. Permission is granted to come aboard the USS Proteus fleet support ship of the navy’s 7th fleet. Become a shipmate and explore these exotic ports: Subic Bay Philippines, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan!
Book Synopsis Orient Express - Journey of a Westpac 76 Sailor by : Robert Rees
Download or read book Orient Express - Journey of a Westpac 76 Sailor written by Robert Rees and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of the countries the author visited while on a Western Pacific (WESTPAC) cruise while in the USN. Midway Island, Guam, Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea
Download or read book Tales of Westpac written by David Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story in the authors words and vintage photography of two combat cruises aboard an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War in 1969-70. Profusely illustrated, many photos in color.
Download or read book War in Our Wake written by Jonathan Malay and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three days after the last Marine Corps helicopter lifted off from Saigon, the author and his Navy shipmates became the very last American military presence of the Vietnam War. This is their untold story, the important final chapter in the history of that wars bitter end. When, as a newly commissioned officer, Jonathan Malay and his shipmates on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22) sailed away from Vietnamese coastal waters on May 3, 1975, they became the last American military presence of the Vietnam War. He tells their story in a gripping personal narrative that includes history, adventure, a love story, and the tale of a bold humanitarian action that saved over a hundred and fifty lives. A sea story at its core, the author colorfully captures the feelings of the period, describing the demands of life at sea and the excitement of visits to exotic ports in the western Pacific and Indian oceans at the same time a tragic end to the war was becoming inevitable. Finally, in telling the harrowing tale of the ships operations in Vietnams coastal waters as Saigon fell, he draws from multiple sources ranging from the ships terse deck log entries to the passion of his letters sent home to his wife in Hawaii. This book reveals not just what the author saw, but how he felt about leaving the War in Our Wake.
Download or read book WestPac written by James Weldon Sadler and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the cramped quarters on a WWII vintage destroyer in the Tonkin Gulf. Laugh and love with eager young sailors in exotic ports of the Pacific Rim: Hong Kong, Subic Bay, Yokosuka, Kaohsiung, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, and more. Dance to the constant pitch and roll that gives destroyers at sea the nickname of "tin cans". Smell spent cordite as big guns boom in support of marines ashore. Pray for survival in a typhoon with endless forty-foot waves crashing over the pilothouse. Endure initiation by King Neptunus Rex and his band of pirates at the equator. Rush to battle stations when Russian bombers fly over at low altitude in the Sea of Japan. Take a front row seat to history as the USS Henry W. Tucker is the first American ship to arrive on scene when North Korea shoots down an American spy plane in April 1969. See the bodies and the debris; feel the intense cold of sea and sky; rendezvous with a Russian destroyer while the Nixon administration grapples with the possibility of igniting World War III. All that and more unfolds in the pages of WestPac the true story of destroyer sailors deployed in the Western Pacific region during Vietnam and the Cold War.
Book Synopsis Conduct Unbecoming by : Randy Shilts
Download or read book Conduct Unbecoming written by Randy Shilts and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history” of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On (The New York Times Book Review). Published during the same year the American military instituted Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing indictment of the military establishment’s historic bigotry toward its gay servicemen and women. Randy Shilts’s eye-opening book describes the bravery, both exceptional and everyday, not only of gay soldiers throughout history, but also of gay men and women serving in our modern military. With each anecdote and investigation, Shilts systematically dismantles the arguments against allowing gays to serve in the military. At once a history of the American military and an account of the gay rights movement, Conduct Unbecoming is a remarkable testament to the progress achieved for gays in the military—and a revealing look at how far we have yet to go.
Book Synopsis Troubled Water by : Gregory A. Freeman
Download or read book Troubled Water written by Gregory A. Freeman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping account of the riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk—and the first mutiny in U.S. Naval history In 1972, the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Its five thousand men, cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the war, rioted--or, as Troubled Water suggests, mutinied. Disturbingly, the lines were drawn racially, black against white. By the time order was restored, careers were in tatters. Although the incident became a turning point for race relations in the Navy, this story remained buried within U.S. Navy archives for decades. With action pulled straight from a high-seas thriller, Gregory A. Freeman uses eyewitness accounts and a careful and unprecedented examination of the navy's records to refute the official story of the incident, make a convincing case for the U.S. navy's first mutiny, and shed new light on this seminal event in American history.
Book Synopsis USS MONONGAHELA A0-178 MED/I.O./WESTPAC DEPLOYMENT by :
Download or read book USS MONONGAHELA A0-178 MED/I.O./WESTPAC DEPLOYMENT written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Striking Eight Bells by : George L Trowbridge
Download or read book Striking Eight Bells written by George L Trowbridge and published by Richter Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Trowbridge recounts his journey from the Midwest to a warship in the Gulf of Tonkin during the closing months of the Vietnam War. George shares the details of the living conditions on board a naval destroyer in this era, the strike attacks his ship made on enemy coastal defenses and finally coming home at the end of the war.
Book Synopsis Sea and Shore Stories, and the Nuclear Boogeyman by : Ebe Chandler McCabe Jr.
Download or read book Sea and Shore Stories, and the Nuclear Boogeyman written by Ebe Chandler McCabe Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebe McCabe’s book opens during the Great Depression. During World War II, dissatisfaction with urban life caused his father to return to his rural hometown with his young family. From there Ebe fulfilled a dream of his parents by attending the Naval Academy, where he learned the “Duty, honor, country” maxim. After graduation, he served on a destroyer, two fleet submarines, two nuclear powered fleet ballistic submarines, and the Atlantic Submarine Force Commander’s staff. That included deployments to the Mediterranean and to the Western Pacific, and seven Polaris submarine patrols. After his active naval duty, he served in the Navy Reserve. Ebe’s civilian career began with a nuclear power plant supplier subsidiary’s nuclear controls engineering section. That was followed by over twenty years as a federal regulator of civilian nuclear power, including response to the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Part Four of his book presents his personal assessment of nuclear war and nuclear power, with a primary basis being his naval and civilian experience and training. Besides his career, Ebe’s book addresses controversies like the Kent State tragedy, war, marriage, immigration, capitalism vs. socialism, equality, and religion.
Download or read book Beyond Aberdeen written by Steven Stoker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ship Ahoy!" and "Bon Voyage!" Join the author as he takes you on a journey unlike any you may have imagined! See what the U.S. Navy's "boot camp" was really like! Feel the frustration and joy that comes with months of constant military training, or the fear that comes with wartime duties! Experience exotic ports of call as the author takes you to far corners of the planet -- locations that most Americans can only imagine! See the world through the eyes of a sailor or perhaps just trigger lost memories from events in your own naval history. Let Beyond Aberdeen: A Bluejacket Diary tell you how a farm boy from Idaho gave up the life he knew for the promise of service, travel, and adventure as an electronics technician in the United States Navy! Watch as maturity, responsibility, and the legacy of a small town upbringing all work together to turn a boy into a man!
Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis It's Your Duty by : Chief Gary A. Goeschel
Download or read book It's Your Duty written by Chief Gary A. Goeschel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Your Duty is a memoir about Gary A. Goeschel’s early naval experience showing he lived the sailor’s life at sea with astounding responsibility encountering danger and adventure. The book summons up stories, revealing an image into an inexperienced sailor’s development, and presents his reflections. Stories about his association with the men he served that forged him into the man he became. WWII experienced leaders gave lessons and guidance, used mean talks, and provided the consequences for the author not meeting requirements, for him, that resulted in embarrassments and painful incidents. The stories also include what a sailor wouldn’t disclose in letters home. Not telling family and friends he could have died when confronting violent seas, nor disclose more threatening dangers. A sailor wouldn’t describe his drunken conditions and the mischief he made. The stories embrace the enlisted sailor’s point of view, a depiction deficient in most naval histories.
Book Synopsis It Wasn't Just a Job; It Was an Adventure by : Donald Johnson
Download or read book It Wasn't Just a Job; It Was an Adventure written by Donald Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what your sailor husband, wife or friend does at sea or at that overseas Navy facility? This book will tell you some of the things that go on. You will read about "The Perfect Storm", practical jokes, Navy food, the loss of a shipmate at sea and much, much more. Sit back and read these Sailors' stories.
Download or read book Surface Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
