Download or read book Nice Talk GI written by Robert V. Hunt Jr. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any veteran who served on active duty during the Korean and Vietnam Wars quickly learned that the U.S. military had its own unique language. It was a combination of acronyms, technical jargon and a considerable sprinkling of vulgarities. “Nice Talk, GI,” is a compilation of terminology used, overheard, or encountered by the author during his service with the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971. An invaluable resource was the author's own “Soldier Notebooks,” kept during BCT and AIT. Also, while stationed in Korea, he served with a number of Vietnam War Veterans, and learned a significant amount of technology from them. An invaluable source was provided by access to Pacific Stars & Stripes newspaper from the era. While the work does not claim to be definitive, it is representative of terminology used by military personnel between 1950 and 1975.
Download or read book Slicky Boys written by Martin Lim#n and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second Sergeant George Sueño investigation, follow-up to the New York Times Notable Jade Lady Burning The Slicky Boys rule the back alleys of 1970s Seoul. They can kill a man in a thousand gruesome ways. And you’ll never even see them coming. In order to combat the poverty facing South Korea, they sneak onto well-stocked American military compounds to steal, murder anyone in their way, and vanish. US Army Sergeant George Sueño and his partner, Ernie Bascom, take on the perilous mission of infiltrating this underground criminal syndicate when an innocent favor for an Itaewon bar girl leads to murder.
Download or read book Good Chemistry written by Patricia Woodall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hillarie Eau Claire is struggling with completing her degree and keeping her family perfume business afl oat in Palm Beach when she literally runs into handsome and wealthy Trey Gilchrist. He is immediately interested in her, but she fi nds him arrogant, pushy, and way “out of her league” despite his efforts to get to know her better. As her business begins to fail, she must make some serious decisions about her future. Trey’s offers of help are resisted as are his affections. Can Hillarie accept his advice and help? Can he win her love, or will the differences in their social classes keep them apart? Can the “little perfume girl” and the rich chemical engineer trust God to give them what they truly need?
Download or read book TechnoNeoPuzzlement written by Thomas Million and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Less Than Victory written by Jeff Shaara and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bulge. The Führer will spare nothing to preserve his twisted vision of a “Thousand Year Reich,” but stout American resistance defeats the German thrust. No Less Than Victory is a riveting account presented through the eyes of Eisenhower, Patton, and the soldiers who struggled face-to-face with their enemy, as well as from the vantage point of Germany’s old soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler’s golden boy, Albert Speer. Jeff Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman’s dreams.
Download or read book Ndyuka written by George L. Huttar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes what is perhaps the most thorough description of a creole language to date. Following the Descriptive Grammar Series outline, it provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, written with the interests of formalists and functionalists, creolists and students of language universals and typology in mind. Expressions of lin-uistic judgements by both native and trained native speakers of Ndyuka combine with close study of texts to provide a solid basis for the work. More than two thousand examples of constructions and forms are considered in context and these give the careful reader a rich picture of all the stuctural and functional aspects of this radical creole. The authors' close acquaintance with the Ndyuka language community spans more than 25 years and allows the intuitions of Ndyuka speakers to show through clearly. Numerous cross references and an index of forms and topics of special interest supplement the detailed table of contents, facilitating the testing of hypotheses on language universals, typology, creolization, and processes such as clefting, relativization and verb serialization.
Download or read book Where Amaranths Bloom written by Reynold Spector and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968 during the height of the Vietnam War, our hero, Dr. Reginald Houghton, a wealthy confident Harvard Yale trained physician with two years of internal medicine residency, was assigned by the US Army as a Senior Medical Advisor to the Korean Army. Upon arrival in Korea, he quickly grasped the contradictory tenets of neo-Confucian Korean versus American laws and customs; in a jam what do you do? Follow American or Korean laws or culture? Unlike most U.S. garrison soldiers Captain Houghton decided to have a "positive" experience beyond alcohol, drugs and "business ladies." The novel recounts his sometimes shocking, often humorous adventures with the Korean language, Korean karate, Korean officers, indigent patients, priceless jadeite carvings, and various ladies.
Download or read book A Reckoning For Kings written by Chris Bunch and published by Allan Cole. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the Tet Offensive beginning in October 1967, when the North Vietnamese Army crosses the border into South Vietnam, and ending when the Tet invasion erupts on January 30, 1968.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beginning of August and Other Plays written by Tom Donaghy and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four plays prove The Village Voice's acclaim that Tom Donaghy has "mastered the Chekhovian tactic of having people say everything except what's on their mind." From the story of a young man trying to find order in a world in which he's had an affair with another man days after his wife left him and their infant daughter, to the emotional undercurrents of quiet, hard-working families faced with the reality that the lives they had envisioned for themselves are vastly different than the ones they are living, The Beginning of August and Other Plays showcases Donaghy's exceptional ability to bring to the surface the emotional undercurrents of everyday people. "Tom Donaghy has that marvelous ability to be acutely funny and moving at the same time. Tom Donaghy's plays reveal a truth not only about good writing but why good playwriting reveals a complexity impossible in any other form. These are masterful works." -- Wendy Wasserstein, author of The Heidi Chronicles; "Donaghy is a genius with fragmentation, with details so small that it comes as a shock to discover how sufficient they really are. Like the wiry pins piercing a grenade's shell, his scenes have similar -- and far more dangerous -- energy." -- The Boston Globe; "Tom Donaghy's plays are tender and lyrical: he has an acute eye and a sharp ear. He explores the everyday lives of ordinary Americans and makes them glow. His work is often moving and always beautiful." -- Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater.
Download or read book Locomotive Engineers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Naked Storm written by C.M. Kornbluth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first it was just a lark--bribing the stewards to steal food, bribing the conductors to steal blankets, raiding the club car, becoming a trainful of drunks. But then--then they began stealing morphine, and after that they began swapping mates, and after that... Finally the lights went out. And a modern-day miracle of streamlined engineering was turned into a cage of evil, human beings become beasts, and for three days the meaning of civilization was forgotten, and carnality ruled!
Download or read book We Never Said Good Bye Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II written by Jack I. Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We Never Said Good-Bye: Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II" is the wartime memoir of Jack I. Moore, who flew 36 missions in the Pacific in the final year of World War II. For his service, Moore earned a Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and five Air Medals. It is a story of triumph and tragedy, and one of the last memoirs from a member of the Greatest Generation. Moore's candid chronicle is an honest look at personal struggles and achievements. It is a story of Purple Hearts, Iwo Jima, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of disease, kamikazes, family, life, fathers and sons, mothers, birth, death, war, loss, faith, atheism, quiet joy, fear, bomb runs and jazz bands, courage, heroism, and even occasional stupidity. From the bitterly cold winter morning when he leaves his Minneapolis home in 1943, to his return at the end of the war, this book celebrates those who served during World War II, while embracing the complex range of emotions and experiences that are unique to a time of war.
Download or read book The Cult of Antinous written by Michael D. Thompson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a revelation of the gay world of ancient Rome, a collision course is set with the present-day gay culture. A new historical tale of how the past impacts the present in the Italian town of Tivoli outside of Rome begins. It brings together all the elements of suspense and history once more. At the end of the first century, the Roman emperor Hadrian sailed down the Nile river with his retinue on the royal barge, including his male paramour, Antinous. But tragedy befell the young man who fell into the Nile and drowned. Over the centuries, many historians have postulated as to the cause of Antinous's death. But no theories were proven and the mystery has remained...a mystery. Until now. Our two protagonists from the previous story about Julia Felix, Bella, and Tony, journey to the Villa Adriana in Tivoli outside of Rome to assist in a search for a missing American professor at the villa. Soon, they begin to uncover a secret cult that has existed over nineteen centuries as well as something otherworldly that poses a threat to their safety.
Download or read book Wiyot Grammar and Texts written by Gladys Amanda Reichard and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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