Download or read book Yes Sir No Sir No Excuse Sir written by Robert George and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book chronicles a patriotic American boy on the difficult journey to manhood. During high school, he walked away from faith and in college survived the rigorous discipline of The Citadel. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as an Air Force officer spending a year at war, where the loss of close friends, duplicitous politicians and the chaos in America left him angry, disillusioned and confrontive to authority. Newly married, he became a Los Angeles policeman where untreated PTSD left him divorced and depressed eight years later. Each season of life is illustrated with pithy stories from a myriad of life experiences and flawed choices which ultimately led to the brink of suicide. Thankfully, the story doesn't end there.
Download or read book West Point Way of Leadership written by Larry Donnithorne and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Point has bred more CEOs than any business school, and the leadership skills taught there are truly matters of life and death. Bolder than Sun Tzu, savvier than Gracian -- THE book on learning to lead.
Download or read book First Class written by Sharon Disher and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the women's four-year effort to join the academy's elite fraternity and become commissioned naval officers is a valuable chronicle of the times, and her insights have been credited with helping us understand the challenges of integrating women into the military services. From the punishing crucible of plebe summer to the triumph of graduation, she describes their search for ways to survive the mental and physical hurdles they had to overcome. Unflinchingly frank, she freely discusses the prejudice and abuse they encountered that often went unpunished or unreported. A loyal Navy supporter, nevertheless, Disher provides a balanced account of life behind the academy's storied walls for that first group of teenaged women who charted the way for future female midshipmen. Lively, well researched, and amazingly good humored, the book seems as fresh today as it was when first published in hardcover in 1998.
Download or read book The Unforgiving Minute written by Craig M. Mullaney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Unforgiving Minute is one of the most compelling memoirs yet to emerge from America's 9/11 era. Craig Mullaney has given us an unusually honest, funny, accessible, and vivid account of a soldier's coming of age. This is more than a soldier's story; it is a work of literature." —Steve Coll, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens "One of the most thoughtful and honest accounts ever written by a young Army officer confronting all the tests of life." —Bob Woodward In this surprise bestseller, West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, Airborne Ranger, and U. S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney recounts his unparalleled education and the hard lessons that only war can teach. While stationed in Afghanistan, a deadly firefight with al-Qaeda leads to the loss of one of his soldiers. Years later, after that excruciating experience, he returns to the United States to teach future officers at the Naval Academy. Written with unflinching honesty, this is an unforgettable portrait of a young soldier grappling with the weight of war while coming to terms with what it means to be a man.
Download or read book Throw Your Stuff Off the Plane written by Art Horn and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to be accountable, to be responsible, to reveal genuine commitment. We all want to keep on track with our word and stay away from blame. But organizational systems meant to institutionalize accountability often don’t help us accomplish those necessary goals. Throw Your Stuff Off the Plane will.
Download or read book Absolutely American written by David Lipsky and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating, funny and tremendously well written” chronicle of daily life at the US Military Academy (Time). In 1998, West Point made an unprecedented offer to Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky: Stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of America’s most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most “absolutely American” institution? During an eventful four years in West Point’s history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Lipsky also meets some extraordinary people: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia O’Keeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to “a career in hair and nails” after the Army. The result is, in the words of David Brooks in the New York Times Book Review, “a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read. . . . How teenagers get turned into leaders is not a simple story, but it is wonderfully told in this book.”
Download or read book A Train written by Charles W. Dryden and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002-06-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a black American graduate of Tuskegee Army Flying School who served as a pilot in the 99th Pursuit Squadron, offering a personal account of what it was like to be a black pilot in WWII and the Korean War. For general readers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Glimpses of God S Grace written by Lt Col William M. Spike Jones and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever met or even heard of a Christian fighter pilot? Now you haveIm one. Come read about how an ordinary kid in a Navy family grew up to marry the toddler two doors down. Read about my teen years in Italy and how I, as a 130 lb. band geek, received a congressional appointment to the USAF Academy. Follow me through life as a cadet. Find out how we made our own fun with coke bottles, Frisbees, lighter fluid, super glue, a condom, a pillow case, and a lot of water. See pilot training from the perspective of the student and the instructor. Once Im all trained up in the F-15, Ill strap you in with me. (Itll be a tight fit because theres only one seat and its mine!) Together, well take my mission ready check ride and repeatedly spank Maverick and Goose in their F-14. Then well scramble to fly into the night sky and fly out over the dark Atlantic to intercept Soviet TU-95 Bear bombers patrolling our east coast during the Cold War. Then well join a 4-ship of Eagles to take on an unknown number or type of adversaries. See how our four jets did against six bad guys. During that fight well peel off to go 1 v 2 against F-16s. I push as close as I dare against the barriers that would make this book classified. When you see what God enabled that 130 lb. band geek to achieve; youll get it: With God, nothing is impossible. But more importantly, see Gods fingerprints on my life and let me challenge your thinking about His amazing grace.
Download or read book The Line written by Bob Mayer and published by Cool Gus . This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would the military ever initiate a coup? A secret, powerful group of West Point Graduates, known only as The Line, is going to do just that. Publishers Weekly: “So convincing, that by the last page, readers may doubt the official version of the last 50 years.” They killed Patton when he opposed them. They’ve cowered Presidents into going to war. For a century, a secret organization of Army officers known as The Line has been covertly manipulating US Policy. Now, in a political climate rife with dissent and unrest, The Line has ordered a pivotal top-secret operation that will let the world know who is really in charge: take out the President on Pearl Harbor Day. But The Line didn’t count on Boomer Watson, a member of the Army’s elite Delta Force and Major Benita Trace, both West Point graduates, staying true to their oath of office and willing to fight The Line with their lives. From The Ukraine to Pearl Harbor to West Point to the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia, it’s a race against time to stop The Line as December 7th looms. West Point graduate and Special Operations veteran, Bob Mayer, gives an insider account of just how such a scenario might unfold.
Download or read book The Warriors Heart written by Harry R. Jackson and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As we struggle to subdue our own mind, will, and emotions to Christ; as we strive to preserve unity and mutual love for one another in the Body of Christ; as we attempt to advance the Kingdom of God and make disciples of all the nations-we do not contend with people's hearts and minds; we contend with the spiritual forces of darkness." -from chapter one Where are you in the spiritual warzone? In this stirring book, Christians are called to realize that they have been drafted into God's army and are even now taking a part-be it as combatant, captive, victim, or an instrument of the enemy-in the war against Satan and his minions. Jackson seeks to uncover the spiritual forces at work within the spheres of geopolitical unrest, the deterioration of the family, and the warring forces within individuals. He encourages readers to find their places in Jesus Christ, connect with the Body of Christ, and use their gifts to achieve maximum impact for God's Kingdom.
Download or read book Sea Change at Annapolis written by H. Michael Gelfand and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Although it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy is not impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of dramatic social change in American history. Drawing on more than two hundred oral histories, extensive archival research, and his own participatory observation at the Academy, Gelfand demonstrates that events at Annapolis reflect the transformation of American culture and society at large in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. In eight chapters, he discusses recruiting and minority midshipmen, the end of mandatory attendance at religious services, women's experiences as they sought and achieved admission and later served as midshipmen, and the responses of multiple generations of midshipmen to societal changes, particularly during the Vietnam War era. This cultural history not only sheds light on events at the Naval Academy but also offers a novel perspective on democratic ideals in the United States.
Download or read book The Cream written by Dick Harper and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 27, 1943, nineteen-year-old Dick Harper received orders to report to Miami Beach, Florida, to begin Aviation Cadet training, with the lofty goal of becoming a combat pilot in the United States Army Air Corps. Hes leaving the security of his hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina for strange, unknown places and an uncertain future, with the ultimate purpose of fighting a war. It was a huge turning point in his life. In The Cream, Harper offers a retrospective of his personal experiences in Aviation Cadet training during World War II. He details his odyssey as he travels from a small Southern town and experiences the dangerous and exciting days and months of pilot training. He shares the disappointments and triumphs, humor and pathos, of his quest for the coveted Silver Wings of a combat pilot. He provides a frontline, inside view, of the rigors and exhilaration of this training. A memoir, The Cream narrates the hopes, frustrations, camaraderie, and ideals of the young men who earned, or attempted to earn, Silver Wings as pilots in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Download or read book The Bodies Keep Coming written by Brian H. Williams and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all, from gunshot wounds to traumatic brain injuries. In The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. Black bodies will continue to be wracked by violence, racism, and healthcare inequities until we enact changes of policy and law.
Download or read book Second Contact written by J. D. Austin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind is attempting to contact alien life. Unfortunately, they’re screening their calls. Dangling on the edge of the galaxy is Kivlan, a planet reputed to be a gracious and accommodating paradise. Even its name means tranquility—but apparently in some dead language, because when an earthship sends out a friendly hello, Kivlan immediately responds with missile fire. Leave it to Earth to give peace one more chance—by dispatching one more ship to Kivlan. And Matt Wiener, its optimistic captain, isn’t traveling way the hell out there just to make enemies. A real straight-arrow, he’s prepared to do what it takes to keep the universe in harmony. Even if it kills them all.
Download or read book Forced Reincarnation written by Dr. Preston Hayward and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Jeffries thought that he had endured all the adversity that life could throw at him: an early childhood in a broken home; maturation in city gangs combined with drug dealing; an early life abandonment by his Mother and Father; numbers running in high school; turbulence of College life in the middle of the 1960s; baptism under fire in Vietnam; involvement in military drug dealing, and gun fights in Thailand. He had fallen in love with a New York City beauty while in College, and stayed alive because of her love and compassion. Writer Preston Hayward identifies the survival traits developed by Marcus and reveals his affection for Trudy as he weaved his way through a troubled existence. However, his past drug acquaintance become problematic; and he is compelled to revert to a life of undesirable crime.
Download or read book Take Command written by Kelly Perdew and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Perdew outlines the 10 principles of effective leadership. He interviews business luminaries with military backgrounds, including Montel Williams, H. Ross Perot, and Roger Staubach. He talks about how his experience at West Point and as a young intelligence officer along the Berlin tripwire during the Cold War helped him to win The Apprentice.
