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Tour Of Duty
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Author : John Dos Passos
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1982-08-25
Tour Of Duty written by John Dos Passos and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-08-25 with History categories.
During the war, Dos Passos visits and studies conditions in Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, the Philippines, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Australia. Of great concern to the author as he explores postwar Europe is the responsible brokering of the peace.
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Author : George L. McCaskill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-17
A Tour Of Duty written by George L. McCaskill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with categories.
The novel opens in late May, the day after Sgt. Gary Maxwell lands on Fire Support Base Stinson southwest of Chu Lai. He has been assigned to first platoon, Delta Company, 1/52 Battalion, 198th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV).Maxwell begins writing about what life in the field, in the "bush", is like. He doesn't consciously set out to write a journal but that's what it turns into as day after day he finds himself with more time on his hands than he can use in any other way. He also writes letters and reads quite a bit. The story is a mesh of funny incidents, sudden tragedies and details which interest Maxwell, details such as how the Vietnamese people live, what the country looks and feels like and how his fellow soldiers think and react in various situations. As month after month passes, Maxwell evolves from FNG (Fucking New Guy) to field wise veteran. In early October he's surprised to hear of the plane crash in Colorado which killed the entire Wichita State football team. He relearns what he always knew, that death, unfair death happens in the "world" (the United States) too. In November, Maxwell's platoon is treated to some homemade whiskey by a papasan in whose hooch they are staying. They have a great time in this village and even take up a collection of extra c-rations to give to a girl who lives in the village who's to marry a local VC as soon as Maxwell's platoon clears out the area. Most of the guys in Maxwell's platoon hold no hard feelings towards the Viet Cong or the Vietnamese villagers.Finally, in late December, Maxwell receives orders to report to Chu Lai for a job in the headquarters of his battalion. The war is over for him and he leaves the "bush" behind him the same way all the soldiers who have gone before him have, alone.
Afghanistan
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Third Millennium Information
Release Date : 2009
Afghanistan written by and has been published by Third Millennium Information this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Afghan War, 2001- categories.
An unforgettable portfolio of more than 100 color and black and white images documenting ordinary British soldiers on a routine tour of duty in Afghanistan
Tour Of Duty
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Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2009-11-12
Tour Of Duty written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with History categories.
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.
Tour Of Duty
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Author : Douglas Brinkley
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Tour Of Duty written by Douglas Brinkley and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
A Stateside Tour Of Duty
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Author : Neil Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2018-10-12
A Stateside Tour Of Duty written by Neil Mitchell and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-12 with Fiction categories.
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.
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Author : Douglas Anton Kammen
language : en
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Release Date : 2010
A Tour Of Duty written by Douglas Anton Kammen and has been published by Equinox Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Political Science categories.
Chapter two explores the career patterns of Army officers during the 1990's. Through a detailed analysis of succession patterns and the examination of class cohorts from the National Military Academy, this chapter further refines the basic model presented in chapter one. This analysis highlights several forms of institutional rationalization within the Army during the late Soeharto era. --
A Tour Of Duty
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Author : Michael R. Butner
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-11-17
A Tour Of Duty written by Michael R. Butner and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-17 with Fiction categories.
In 1967, a Boeing 707 filled with United States Marines roars off the Alaskan runway and heads for Vietnam. As Mitchell Rice looks out the planes window, he wonders if this will be his last glimpse of home. What Rice does not know is that he has just left a normal life behind forever. Twelve thousand miles later, entrenched in the jungles of Vietnam; Rice is assigned to a two-man sniper unit. After North Vietnamese attackers kill his partner, Rice goes on a vengeful killing spree, sending eighty VMAs to their graves. Rice is ultimately injured and airlifted to a hospital where he meets three special women who each try to make him whole once again. Eventually discharged from the Marines, Mitch continues to grapple with the internal demons created by the battlefield atrocities he witnessed. Even as a civilian medical student called upon to execute a short mission during the 1972 Olympic Games, Rice still struggles to find his self-worth. Decades later, after Mitch has developed a medical practice in Oklahoma, he is called back to the military and must perform one final international assignment that threatens to destroy the very life he has worked so hard to recreate.
A Tour Of Duty In California
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Author : Joseph Warren Revere
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
A Tour Of Duty In California written by Joseph Warren Revere and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with California categories.
Tour Of Duty
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Author : John Dos Pasos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Tour Of Duty written by John Dos Pasos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.