
A Carrier At War: On Board The Uss Kitty Hawk In The Iraq War
What distinguishes Richard F. Miller's A Carrier at War is its focus on individual officers and sailors and shipboard morale as distinct from the usual "bomb and bullet" reporting. The USS Kitty Hawk's mission paralleled the tortuous course of events leading up to the Iraq War. Originally stationed in the northern Persian Gulf to enforce the Southern No-Fly Zone, the Kitty Hawk became one of the l...
Hardcover: 243 pages
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.; First American Edition edition (October 26, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1574889605
ISBN-13: 978-1574889604
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 3287634
Format: PDF Text djvu book
- 1574889605 epub
- 978-1574889604 epub
- Richard F. Miller epub
- Richard F. Miller books
- epub books
Read Moern comiler imlementation in ml ebook allniperoback.wordpress.com Here The career guide for creative and unconventional people third edition pdf link Read Empires of the indus the story of a river ebook allsikezutio.wordpress.com Read Forget me not ebook easysipukukouts.wordpress.com Laleur brooks health unit coorinating Here The emire strikes out book pdf link Read Were going on a bear hunt ebook carrenthasete.wordpress.com Download Follow the stars home a novel pdf at bewildnikuin.wordpress.com
“There are some pretty scathing, nasty customer reviews here, and they're easy to understand, because the reviewers seem disappointed that the book wasn't what they'd thought it to be, thinking they were going to get the "At War" part of the title. Th...”
ad elements in the campaign to "shock and awe" the Iraqi armed forces, from the moment her battle group launched twelve of some forty Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first effort to kill Saddam Hussein to the round-the-clock sorties of fighter jets launched from her deck once hostilities began. The author, who was present before, during, and after the beginning of the war, interviewed the ship's captain, chaplains, aviators, the ship psychologist, doctors, the dentist, and the chief of security. He visited the brig, interviewed the jailors, ate with both officers and enlisted men and women, and, on the brink of war, attended both Christian and Jewish religious services.Perhaps of greatest importance, owing to his cigar habit, he spent many hours in the one place on board where the real face of life at sea can be observed-the enlisted personnel's smoking sponson. Here the crew relaxed and proved honest enough to enable the author to make his most surprising discoveries about the modern military.
Leave a Comment