Download or read book Rescue on Gimhae written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could Sgt Seavers's mission kill him? Yes. Yes, it could. Sgt Seavers of the Orphan Corps is having a run of bad luck. First, he gets in a fight with three marines while on a space station. Second, he wins that fight. And now, after learning he was being considered for officer candidate training, he is informed of his penance. Can Seavers handle a resentful platoon of Marines? Can he do it while delivering medical aid to a suspicious colony of terraformers? To get back his chance at officer candidate training, he’ll do his best. Or die trying. If you love a good military adventure, crossed with sci-fi worthy of Andre Norton and Asimov, then Rescue on Gimhae is the story you’re looking for. Strap in, hang on. The journey begins now.
Download or read book AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS DEADLY MISTAKES The Crash of Air China Flight 129 written by George Cramoisi, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 15, 2002, Air China flight 129, a Boeing 767-200ER, operated by Air China, en route from Beijing, China to Busan, Korea, crashed on Mt. Dotdae, near Gimhae Airport, Busan. Of the 166 persons on board, 37 persons survived the crash, while 129 occupants were killed. The Korean Aviation Accident Investigation Board (KAAIB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was pilot error due to poor crew resource management and lost situational awareness during the circling approach of the runway. The Chinese investigation team pointed out that the Korean ATC was not fully licensed and mistakenly directed the airliner to descend to a wrong altitude and that the airport did not inform the crew of the weather conditions at the time. A contributing factor was that the airline made all announcements in Chinese and English, while most passengers were Korean.
Download or read book Why Planes Crash Case Files 2002 written by Sylvia Wrigley and published by Sylvia Wrigley. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the Why Planes Crash series covers incidents and accidents in 2002, including two in-flight suicides, the Sknyliv airshow disaster, how to write off a Saab 2000, an aircraft collision over the runway, a dramatic river landing, Air China 129’s flight into a Korean mountain, and finally, an in-depth view of the Überlingen mid-air collision. Accidents are invariably a combination of factors, and pilot decisions and (in)actions can be the result of a culmination of those factors. A strong investigation will not only consider the cause but the contributing factors: those actions or inactions which could have saved the day but didn’t. The objective in accident investigations around the world is not to cast blame, but to understand every aspect so that we can stop it happening again. Unravelling the mystery is the most important step.
Download or read book Why Planes Crash Case Files 2001 2003 written by Sylvia Wrigley and published by Fear of Landing. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting series goes beyond the news clips and investigates the most harrowing and inexplicable plane crashes from 2001-2003. Appearing for the first time in a bundle, this book contains thirty-three incidents and accidents from the series so far. Please note that this is a compilation of the existing three books and does not include new content. Every chapter features a detailed walk-through of a real-life air emergency. The author combines official investigation reports and modern media coverage as well as cockpit and ATC transcripts to take the reader through these accidents and near-misses. Why Planes Crash offers an exciting and compelling look at the critical moments which define an aviation accident, explaining both the how and the why of catastrophic accidents in modern times. From disintegrating airliners to in-flight suicide to maintenance shortcuts, the author critically looks into each factor that might have lead to the crash. Her investigations and deep insight aim to make the reader into a witness to the investigation and yet it is comprehensive enough for anyone with no aviation knowledge to understand. “For those aviation enthusiasts that wish to delve beyond the sensationalist headlines on aviation accidents Sylvia Spruck Wrigley's "Why Planes Crash" will satisfy their needs. Informative, critical and insightful.” ~HAL STOEN, STOENWORKS AVIATION “The author has done a remarkable job in not only researching the evidence of the accidents she covers and in putting across the problems of an investigation, but she has managed to do this in a way that will interest and appeal to a wide range of readers.” ~JOHN FARLEY OBE, AUTHOR OF VIEW FROM THE HOVER
Download or read book Summer at Xawela written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitallers, be careful what you wish for. In the wake of the Nongoma action, Sergeant Fermo’s team has been confined to base duty. But then there’s an ambush, and the peace talks mission goes pear-shaped. There’s only one team available to respond. Eager for action, Fermo’s team jumps at the chance to rescue their fellow Hospitalers. But the ambush is just the beginning of Fermo’s latest trial. She and her team must venture into unknown territory with few clues and no outside support. But they are not alone. They have brought help with them. Will it be enough to see them through the mission? And what costs will the team pay to survive? There’s only one way to know.
Download or read book Last Wave written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is being alone worse than death? Acharon has no interest in finding out. He and Sovelet are two of the last humans on Earth. They’ve lived an idyllic existence on their man-made island over the decades. For Acharon, these have been good times, quiet times. Life, though, has other plans. Murphy’s suicide and Sovelet’s medical diagnosis have shattered the illusion Acharon has so carefully crafted. There is no more sitting and watching sunsets while humanity winds down to extinction. Not if he wants to save Sovelet’s life. To do so, Acharon and Sovelet must face a city gone wild. A city that hasn’t seen a human in decades and has no fear of them. It is a city filled with dangers and bad memories. But Acharon will face everything to keep Sovelet alive and safe. Death will come in time, but not without a fight. Not if Acharon has any say in the matter. In the tradition of Earth Abides, Dog Stars, and On The Beach, Last Wave explores what it is to be human and what it means to be alive. Start reading now!
Download or read book Spring at Nongoma written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people don’t like Hospitallers. Despite the floods from the melting snow and the impending destruction, the people of Tanzi would rather the Hospitallers just go away. Better they take their chances with raging rivers and rising waters than trust child abductors. Such is the power of good propaganda. However, Imara and her squad have a job to do. So far, they’ve never failed to complete a mission anywhere. Not even on Abira. But there’s always a first time. Imara not only has to wade her way through rising waters, but she also has to deal with distrustful locals, a manipulative government, and secrets that could shift the balance of power across the planet. All of that to perform a mission that half the planet doesn’t want her to successfully complete. Just another day in the Hospitaller Orphan Corps. It’s time to mount up with Sergeant Imara Fermo and her squad once more. Join them as Imara works to keep her promise of seeing her team safely through another mission. Let’s get reading!
Download or read book Reluctant Symbiosis written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couldn’t any mission be simple? Lt Derinzinski could count the number of people he trusted on one hand. None of them included the butterflies of Novjaro. When one of the two-meter-tall butterflies interferes with Derinzinski’s mission, he trusts them even less. Then the mission goes sideways. The team is in trouble. They’re tens of kilometers from help. Unless you count the butterfly, which Derinzinski definitely did not. Yet, the butterfly persists. Shadowed by the butterfly, Derinzinski fights to correct a wrong, while battling inner demons that have been released from the darkest recesses of his mind. What exactly does the butterfly want? Derinzinski doesn’t want to find out. But he may not have any choice. Follow Lt Derinzinski as he battles an alien world and his own haunted memories. Read Reluctant Symbiosis now.
Download or read book Deceit on Panchala written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “MSgt Hamdi, you’re too clever to let the galaxy have.” Msgt Hamdi was at the end of her second enlistment. Signing the next should have been easy. What was stopping her? Hamdi needed time to think, and overseeing a ceasefire with Acre company should have given her the time she needed. Nothing is ever easy in a war zone. The locals are unusually suspicious. It’s not until Hamdi and a squad of Hospitallers finds a friendly face in a cafe that things begin to look up. There is no certainty in war. When a mortar attack destroys the cafe, killing adults and children, things look even grimmer. Now, with both sides of the conflict blaming the other, Hamdi and Acre company have their work cut out for them. They have 24 hours to discover the perpetrators or the war resumes and more people will die. External and internal struggles tug at Hamdi from all sides. Can she find the killers? Can she find an answer to her own dilemma? Deceit on Panchala is the second book in the Stories of the Orphan Corps series. It is also a stand-alone story in the burgeoning universe of the Hospitallers’ Orphan Corps. If you enjoy an exciting military tale layered with political intrigue, and seasoned with engaging characters, Deceit on Panchala is your kind of story.
Download or read book Wintertide at Knynsa written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sgt Imara Fermo keeps her promise at Bhisho. Though everyone, including herself, was wounded, no one died. And they saved a lot of other lives in the process. But can she do it again? The Rhone have not honored their ceasefire. The war rolls on across the planet. Now, the Hospitallers must employ the third tenet of their mission. They must defend a Serdoban city from a Rhone assault. That’s when things go wrong. Dropships are attacked on their way to the surface. Imara’s squad survives, but they’re tens of kilometers from where they should be. In fact, they’re somewhere in the middle of Rhone held territory. And they’re on their own. Can Imara see her squad safely through their mission? Only time will tell. And time is running out.
Download or read book Midwinter at Bhisho written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing aid becomes a fight for survival. When Imara lands on Abira with the rest of her company, things don’t feel right. And it’s not just the constant, falling snow. Bhisho’s townsfolk are nervous. This makes the Hospitallers wary. Then, thieves come in the night. But the thieves aren’t just thieves, they’re citizens of Grabouw, the other town in the valley. The Hospitallers learn that the people of Grabouw are starving, too. Imara and her team are charged with escorting supplies, through the snow, to the other town. The welcome here is even more chilling. Imara is certain more is going on than just a shortage of food supplies. A passed note confirms her suspicions. Now, Imara not only has to get her team safely back to Bhisho, but she also needs to report the truth, even if it costs her teams’ lives. Midwinter on Bhisho is the first story in the Seasons of War on Abira series. Follow Sgt Imara Fermo as she not only deals with her own demons but also struggles to understand the layers of deceptions that drive the civil war on Abira. Get the book. Get reading. The adventure awaits!
Download or read book Secrets on Wenshen written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distress call changes everything. The ship Dewey’s platoon is on responds to the signal. They jump to another solar system A supposedly unoccupied system. There they find a smuggler’s ship. All its systems are failing. Fortunately, the Hospitallers have arrived in time. But they are not alone. Now, under attack, their jump drive broken, the Hospitallers are in trouble and running out of options. There’s a planet, Wenshen, in the system. But, as Dewey knows, Wenshen isn’t just unoccupied, it’s acidic atmosphere makes it inhospitable to humans. Their choices are few. They can stay in space, and die. Or, they can land on Wenshen and die there. But if anyone can find a solution to impending death, it’s the Hospitaller Orphan Corps. Suit up. Strap in. It’s going to be a wild ride. Get your copy now to join the adventure, and learn what secrets Wenshen holds.
Download or read book Abandoned on Juracan written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juracan was supposed to be abandoned. A global nuclear war forced those not killed to flee their damaged world. Then came the Radial War, and Juracan was lost to history. So why now is there a signal for help? The revelation of a lost planet’s existence raises many questions. Who sent the message? Why do they need help now after all these centuries? And how is the cry for help coming from a modern emergency beacon? The only way to find answers is to go and look for them. There’s a feeling of déjà vu as once again, Dewey finds himself en route to investigate a planet. An abandoned planet long forgotten. A planet assumed to be uninhabitable. At least this time, they can breathe the air. Without a hint as to what to expect, Dewey plans for the worst. Seldom has he been wrong. Though, just once, he’d like to be. Join Lt Dewey Tyler and his platoon of Hospitallers as they drop planetside, make new discoveries, and try once more to save the day.
Download or read book Standoff on Oulu written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VetTech Pagnotto is about to find out if he has what it takes to be a Hospitaller. Oulu is Pagnotto’s first mission off Hephaestia as a Wutenigel handler. He and the Wutenigel he’s named Thumb have come with Ascalon company to Oulu as a supernumerary. Thumb can identify and name every scent it encounters. With Pagnotto and Thumb as part of Ascalon company, the Hospitallers hope to find the source of recent terrorist-style bombings. An attack on a Texarkanian community pulls the Hospitallers deeper into the global conflict. Uncovering secrets puts the entire company at risk of total annihilation. Can Pagnotto and Thumb survive long enough to do their part in the mission? Can they survive a world seemingly hell-bent on their destruction? Standoff on Oulu is the third book in the Stories of the Orphan Corps series. Just like Rescue on Gimhae and Deceit on Panchala, Standoff on Oulu is a self-contained story full of martial adventure, political intrigue, moral dilemma, and an abundance of destruction. Get Standoff on Oulu now and be part of the Stories of the Orphan Corps universe. It’s the next best thing to being there. (And less dangerous.)
Download or read book Disaster Risk Management in the Republic of Korea written by Yong-kyun Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book scrutinizes the entire disaster trajectory history in the Republic of Korea: evolution, cross-over, and interconnection among natural, technological, and social disasters. Also examined is the government’s dynamic reaction for effective disaster responses in the wake of major disasters, labelled as focusing events, distributed in the long tail of the power law function. Collating one nation’s entire disaster history, its disaster management policies, and its responses to major disasters is a unique journey into that nation’s evolution. Korea rose from devastation in the 1950s to become one of the most economically and politically dynamic nations by the turn of the century. However, with rapid growth has come all types of disasters. Looking at the lessons learned from Korea’s disaster risk management measures, policies, and responses, as well as some of the world’s major disasters, we can gain insight into the future of disaster risk management.This book is intended to lay out developing nations’ potential future disaster risk management path, a theoretical policymaking guide, and desirable institutional and organizational transformations. Effective countermeasures included in this book will guide policymakers, capacity builders, and academics in developing nations to avoid the disaster path in the near future at the cost of rapid economic growth that Korea faced.
Download or read book Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration Public Policy and Governance written by Ali Farazmand and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 13623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge. Expanded and updated, the second edition includes over a thousand of new entries representing the most current research in public administration, public policy, governance, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and management covering such important sub-areas as: 1. organization theory, behavior, change and development; 2. administrative theory and practice; 3. Bureaucracy; 4. public budgeting and financial management; 5. public economy and public management 6. public personnel administration and labor-management relations; 7. crisis and emergency management; 8. institutional theory and public administration; 9. law and regulations; 10. ethics and accountability; 11. public governance and private governance; 12. Nonprofit management and nongovernmental organizations; 13. Social, health, and environmental policy areas; 14. pandemic and crisis management; 15. administrative and governance reforms; 16. comparative public administration and governance; 17. globalization and international issues; 18. performance management; 19. geographical areas of the world with country-focused entries like Japan, China, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe, North America; and 20. a lot more. Relevant to professionals, experts, scholars, general readers, researchers, policy makers and manger, and students worldwide, this work will serve as the most viable global reference source for those looking for an introduction and advance knowledge to the field.
Download or read book A Concise History of Modern Korea written by Michael J. Seth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the nineteenth century. Placing this formerly insular society in a global context, Michael J. Seth describes how this ancient, culturally and ethnically homogeneous society first fell victim to Japanese imperialist expansionism, and then was arbitrarily divided in half after World War II. Seth traces the postwar paths of the two Koreas with different political and social systems and different geopolitical orientations as they evolved into sharply contrasting societies. South Korea, after an unpromising start, became one of the few postcolonial developing states to enter the ranks of the first world, with a globally competitive economy, a democratic political system, and a cosmopolitan and dynamic culture. By contrast, North Korea became one of the world's most totalitarian and isolated societies, a nuclear power with an impoverished and famine-stricken population. Considering the radically different and historically unprecedented trajectories of the two Koreas, Seth assesses the insights they offer for understanding not only modern Korea but the broader perspective of world history."
