Surprising Facts About Being a Navy Sailor


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Sailors in the Navy will almost certainly spend part of their careers at sea. Everyone on board has a job, whether it's a cook, medic,Ê to nuclear equipment operator. And even though a sailorÕs life on a ship is strict and orderly, there are still some surprising facts about jobs, training, and living quarters in the Navy in this eBook.




Surprising Facts About Being an Air Force Airman


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Airmen in the U.S. Air Force dedicate their lives to serving their country. But this doesnÕt always mean that service is spent in battle. Airmen have a variety of roles. Some roles are ones you would expect. But others, in addition to their day-to-day life, can be pretty surprising. Find out more in this eBook.




Surprising Facts About Being a Marine


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Marines are a prestigious branch of the military who dedicate themselves to honor, courage, and commitment. In times of conflict, these values turn Marines into the heroes we know them to be. But what are their everyday lives like? What does their rigorous training involve? And what makes being a member of this military branch unique? The answers in this eBook may surprise you.




Surprising Facts About Being an Army Soldier


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Being apart of the militaryÕs largest branch might seem like all work and no play. But soldiers in the Army know that protecting their country can be a fun and rewarding experience. Learn little-known facts and unique details in this eBook about what it means to be an Army soldier.







The Texas Navy


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A Sailor's Treasury


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Radioman (RM).


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Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965


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CMH Pub 50-1-1. Defense Studies Series. Discusses the evolution of the services' racial policies and practices between World War II and 1965 during the period when black servicemen and women were integrated into the Nation's military units.




John Paul Jones


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The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.