Download or read book Military Brats written by Mary Edwards Wertsch and published by Brightwell Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military brats' childhoods are often scarred by alcoholism, abuse, and an ever-present threat of a parent's loss to war. This eye-opening, sometimes shocking exploration tells what life is really like for the stepchildren of Uncle Sam. A new recovery group, Adult Children of Military Personnel, Inc., has been formed as a direct result of this book's publication.

Download or read book BRAT and the Kids of Warriors written by Michael Joseph Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack McMasters and his two sisters are forced to leave behind every friend they have when they are once again moved halfway around the world -- this time to post-WWII Germany. Their father is a tank commander defending against 3,000 enemy tanks -- pointed directly at them. Theirs is a life of adventure, spies, making new friends, and dealing with their own set of enemies . . . always requiring serious ingenuity if these military brats are to survive this war zone.

Download or read book Army Brats written by Daphne Benedis-Grab and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting for adventure! The Bailey kids' mom has just been assigned to Fort Patrick, and it'll be the family's first time living on an army base! Tom, Charlotte, and Rosie get to make new friends, explore the neighborhood, and cool off in the huge pool. Unfortunately, they also have to deal with the base bully, who seems determined to make Tom's life completely miserable by telling everyone he's a wimp.When the Baileys discover a mystery on base--an abandoned building long rumored to be haunted--they know that this is the way to show the world how brave Tom truly is. But when they go to investigate, they find there's more to the house than some old rumors. What is that weird equipment? And who is that suspicious man sneaking around inside?It's up to Charlotte, Tom, and Rosie to figure out the base's secrets-and prove to everyone that no bully can keep the Bailey kids down.Daphne Benedis-Grab's Army Brats is an exciting romp that celebrates friendship, bravery, and being true to yourself.

Download or read book The Adventures of a Military Brat written by Johanna K Gomez and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a brave boy as he shares the challenges and opportunities of growing up as a military brat. Follow him as he reunites with his family, anticipates an upcoming move, adjusts to his father's recent return, makes new friends and shows pride demonstrating military traditions.

Download or read book Legacies written by F. Paul Wilson and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repairman Jack isn't your average appliance repairman--he fixes situations for people, often risking his own life. Jack has no last name, no social security number, works only for cash, and has no qualms when it comes to seeing that the job gets done. Dr. Alicia Clayton, a pediatrician who treats children with AIDS, is full of secrets, and she has just inherited a house that holds another. Haunted by painful memories, Alicia wants the house destroyed--but somehow everyone she enlists to help ends up violently killed. The house holds a powerful secret, and Alicia's charmless brother Thomas seems willing to do anything to get his hands on that secret himself. But not if Repairman Jack can find it first! Legacies is the first thrilling novel in the Repairman Jack series from bestselling author F. Paul Wilson At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Brats written by Mary R. Truscott and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult children of military personnel describe their growing up in a military family and how it affects their lives today.

Download or read book Black Army Brat written by MacKie Faye Hill and published by Dr. MacKie Faye Hill. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Dr. Hill looks back on her life as an "Army Brat," she values the eighteen years of living in and visiting many different cities and countries as a very important component of her life. The experiences that she encountered with many different people and cultures served to cultivate her understanding and acceptance of the vast amount of diversity that exists in our world. After listening to her many stories, relatives, friends, and colleagues encouraged her to write a book. So, now at age seventy-three, she has written "Black Army Brat," promised for many years, and now available to everyone.

Download or read book Adventures of a Military Brat written by Daniel Gomez and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's that time of the year for military brats. The Big Move is finally here! Ride along with a courageous young girl as she faces the challenges of a military family move. Learn how she cherishes favorite memories and prepares for her new home, all while delivering a touching message of hope and optimism.

Download or read book Military Brats and Other Global Nomads written by Morten G. Ender and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, American political, military, corporate, and humanitarian responsibilities abroad expanded greatly. With families in tow, government officials, military service personnel, business executives, and missionaries began to travel and live, in increasing numbers, outside of their home country. Other nations followed suit. Ender examines this legacy of the late 20th century and analyzes the social, psychological, and historical imprints on people who came of age in these service organization families. Such international experiences impose specific demands on employees, their spouses and their children. These include relocation, risk of death or injury, family separation, and social controls on behavior. This collection contains thirteen essays by researchers studying children, adolescents, youth, and adults in a service organization family context, including the military, the State Department, international educators, and non-governmental organizations. The studies integrate research from sociology, psychology, child and adolescent development, family studies, and communications.

Download or read book Army Brat Army Bride Civilian A Life written by Darlene Gravett and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army Brat, Army Bride, Civilian: A Life reveals the ups and downs of military living through the experiences of one who was both a sergeant's daughter and an officer's wife. The military teaches many lessons but not how to transition to civilian life after more than thirty years of moving around in the Army, including attending five different high schools as a teenager. While in the Army, families learn to adapt to renting or buying an apartment or house in town or to being assigned a set of Army quarters on a military post. If in quarters, they must not paint walls or install carpet or leave holes in walls where pictures used to hang. Although the Army is a highly structured organization, flexibility is a key word for its families. Dealing with snafus, making decisions which seem right at the time but turn out to be trumped by the demands of the military, adjusting to new places, and making new friends every two to three years are all part of living the military life. Yet the adventure and excitement of this life are evident throughout.

Download or read book Brat Life written by Caren J. Town and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With hundreds of thousands of current and former military brats in the United States, their lives as children of service members are surprisingly little documented. Reading about the experiences of fellow brats can help these children of warriors understand both themselves and the unique world in which they were raised. Learning of the challenges that these children face will also help the general population consider how to honor and to help those whose lives were shaped by the military without volunteering or being drafted. This book explores the military brat experience as reflected in novels intended for adults, adolescent fiction, autobiographies and biographies, and highlights the common elements: frequent moves, the ever-present sense of danger, the potential loss of the service member, and isolation from the larger civilian world. By understanding the lives of brats, we can better understand the very real costs--beyond the lives of service members themselves--that families bear in the name of our collective freedom and security.

Download or read book Army Brat written by Laura Gutman and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Army brats have always been a core component of the US military. Scarcely described until now, Army Brat: World War II is an essential account that fills a major gap in history. Author Laura Thurston Gutman lived deeply embedded within the US Armed Forces from the United States’ earliest entry into World War II through the Vietnam era. Chronicling pivotal events during those years, this historical autobiography describes a life inextricably intertwined with the military. From her birth at West Point’s hospital, to her cobbled-together education, and witnessing her father’s many military honors, Laura’s childhood was one of intense awareness of the danger her father faced and the courage her mother displayed. As she grew older, she lurked in the background during long evenings of intense discussions of policy. Through the constant upheaval and disruption so familiar to military families, Laura developed a radical independence, a determination to gain control over her life, and a fearless approach to her own education. Chronicling the experiences of a strong military family as they witness and participate in the unfolding of history in a dangerous and challenging world, Army Brat identifies consequential insights into the critical importance of a strong religious foundation; an educational system dedicated to core concepts of nation and loyalty; and leadership that prioritizes sovereignty, national defense, and military support.

Download or read book The Writer and the Overseas Childhood written by Antje M. Rauwerda and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Ian McEwan have in common with Barbara Kingsolver? Or The Shack's William Paul Young with The Way the Crow Flies' Ann-Marie MacDonald? All four spent significant portions of their formative years overseas as expatriates; all four are third culture kids. These authors share experiences of cultural and geographical displacement that fracture constructions of home and identity, as their fiction attests. This study surveys 17 authors with "expat" backgrounds to define "third culture literature," a burgeoning yet unrecognized branch of international writing characterized by expressions of dislocation, loss, and disenfranchisement. By explicating how the shared cultural details of these writers emerge in literary themes and images, this work introduces third culture literature as a separate field, reinterpreting the work of major writers from across the globe.

Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Live Longer and Better written by Chris Burres and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t we all want to live longer—a lot longer? The story of Live Longer and Better begins with a dome and a molecule. The dome is the geodesic dome that R. Buckminster Fuller made famous. The molecule is carbon 60 (C60 or C60), a nanosized molecule of sixty carbon atoms in a spheroid structure that resembles a geodesic dome. As cofounder of SES Research Inc. and MyVitalC, Chris Burres had the opportunity in the 1980s to work with the scientific team at Rice University that won a Nobel Prize for their accidental discovery of carbon 60. This book tells Chris’s story of the adventure that has led him and his partner to bring to the world ESS60®, the highest-quality carbon 60 available anywhere today. In 2012, Professor Tarek Baati and Dr. Fathi Moussa of the Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Sud 11 in Châtenay-Malabry, France, along with a group of French-speaking colleagues in France and Tunisia, published a game-changing article in the scientific journal Biomaterials, entitled “The prolongation of the lifespan of rats by repeated oral administration of [60] fullerene,” using for their controlled experiment carbon 60 Chris produced. Baati and his fellow researchers opened up worldwide the possibility that carbon 60 might have excellent health and life-extending properties for human beings. “What if I told you that you could live to be 125 years old?” Burres asks. In Live Longer and Better, Burres shares the secrets he has learned in his quest to extend life productively. “I decided to reinvent myself, imagining how I could challenge the world’s longevity record,” Burres explains. “We have written this book because we want to challenge you to do the same.”

Download or read book America s Army and the Language of Grunts written by E. Kelly Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «a powerful sketch of America's Soldiers depicted in their unique lingo legacy ... «a fascinating array of cultural jargon based on a proud history and known as the language of Grunts ... «compelling leadership lessons built on a legacy fashioned by Warriors, celebrated by Veterans, shared with families, and intriguing to citizens ... «Americans share the pride of ownership -all contributing to the rich cultural lingo of our Nation's Army ... «a timely insight into America's Army and her Citizen Soldiers, viewed through a proud legacy of lingo steeped in tradition and filled with contemporary influences ... the old, and the new ...

Download or read book Imperial Delusions written by Carl Boggs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting critique, Carl Boggs argues that the United States is dominated by a new militarism, one that has become more potent and menacing since 9/11. He skillfully explores the origins and development of this new militarism and show its devastating effects on American society.