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Book College Boy Lieutenant

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sylvan Litz
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2000-10-18
  • ISBN : 1462801625
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book College Boy Lieutenant written by Sylvan Litz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-10-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50s have been idealized in nostalgia for the naivet of the populace and the birth of rock and roll music. But there were other factors at work that greatly affected the lives of the 50s generation. Factors such as the Korean police action, a military that had not yet fully accepted the idea that a soldier could be acquitted at a court-martial, and a society that wasnt quite ready for religious and racial harmony. COLLEGE-BOY LIEUTENANT is a story of a young man, STEVE STILLMAN, who joins the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) so he can complete his college career without being drafted into the Army. As he graduates, marries, and enters the service as a second lieutenant, Steve encounters a myriad of situations. His education into the Army way and his growth from boyhood to manhood in the 50s military and its culture are major factors in this sometimes humorous, sometimes serious novel. When Steve reports for duty at Fort Lee, Virginia, he leaves his new wife, LAURA, behind because she is expecting their first child in little over a month. This provides him with the opportunity to experience barracks living and to make friends with two other young lieutenants, each of a different religion. As the weeks go on, the young men experience attitude changes and are toughened by their training. They decide to attend religious services together weekly in a nearby town and the search for an acceptable religious facility is disturbing but results in an easy choice. The training progresses through classroom work where Korean Army officers are included. Language differences lead to some hi-jinx but the striking philosophical differences become apparent. When the training finally ends, Steve and one of his two friends, SKEETER WALTERS, are assigned to remain at Fort Lee. They both take 15-day leaves to make family arrangements: Steve to move Laura and their new baby to Virginia and Skeeter to marry his childhood sweetheart and move her there, too. When Steve and Laura arrive at their new apartment in Virginia, they busy themselves with the usual matters of getting accustomed to a new community. Meanwhile, Steve learns he has no real duties in the Army and he breaks a cardinal rule by asking for an assignment. Meantime, Lauras mother comes for a visit and is appalled by their living quarters, persuading them to move. There are two important developments as Steve and Laura begin to search for a new apartment. First, Steve is appointed Assistant Defense Counsel for Special Courts-Martial and the soon-to-be-discharged Defense Counsel gives him an education on the astounding military system of jurisprudence. In addition, he learns the unpleasant reason why Skeeter did not resume their friendship. When Skeeter tells Steve the apartment next to his is available, Steve and Laura decide to rent it, hoping that proximity will alleviate the problem. Steves work after appointment to the court becomes one of the main elements of this story through the several court battles that take place. Some reveal the basic unfairness of the military system while others have a dramatic or humorous twist. His blossoming abilities result in an offer to be sent to law school but an evening at the officers club and a blatant example of the dictatorial nature of the system convinces him otherwise. Meanwhile, a second job assignment - that of Post Ration Breakdown Officer - becomes another main story element. Responsible for the issue of all food at the army post, Steve learns how to wield the power of the militarys true currency, coffee. He uses it to acquire a field jacket, electric calculators, and powerful friends who save the day more than once. Woven throughout the story are the day-to-day worries of Army life, the day-to-day problems of a young married couple with a baby living in a less than conventional environment, and the humorous incidents relevant to both. One particul

Book Cheltenham College Register  1841 1910

Download or read book Cheltenham College Register 1841 1910 written by Cheltenham College and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boys  Brigade Gazette

Download or read book The Boys Brigade Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army and Navy Journal

Download or read book Army and Navy Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Army List

Download or read book The Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The College Student s Introduction to Christology

Download or read book The College Student s Introduction to Christology written by William P. Loewe and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did some people want Jesus dead, while others came to honor him as the Christ? What does it mean to say that he was raised," and how did this belief get started? What about the classical expressions of Jesus' religious significance? Where did they come from and what do they mean? What does belief in Jesus have to do with justice for the poor, the women's movement, concern for the environment, and respect for other world religions? These are just a few of the questions that have given Christology a whole new shape in recent years. Through the process of inquiry, conversation, and debate, students, clergy, and other professional ministers receive a complete introduction into the current thinking about Jesus' religious significance the present stage of Christology. In The College Student's Introduction to Christology, Loewe focuses on Christology today, especially the religious significance of Jesus for culture and society. By surveying Jesus' life in light of the Easter experience and by tracing the Christological process the process whereby Christians seek to capture and communicate in words Jesus' salvific impact this work grasps current Christian, and especially Catholic, theological reflection on the significance of Jesus. Loewe focuses on becoming familiar with issues regarding how people discuss Jesus today; grasping the historical and cultural background from which these issues emerged; and developing an understanding of the methods for resolving them. Part One deals with the question of the historical Jesus, Part Two examines the origin and meaning of Christian belief in Jesus' resurrection, and Part Three uncovers the Christological process as it unfolds through the New Testament, classical patristic dogma, and today. The ways in which Christians have sought to express Jesus' religious significance offer insight for what those exThe College Student's Introduction to Christology offers individuals a method for encountering Christ in the world. William P. Loewe, Ph.D., is associate professor and former chair of the Department of Religion and Religious Education at The Catholic University of America. His teaching and writing focus on Christology, soteriology, and Lonergan studies. "

Book The Windsor Magazine

Download or read book The Windsor Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2834 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 2834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1944

Download or read book Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1944 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Army List

Download or read book The Monthly Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 2546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Common Virtue

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  • Author : James A Hawkins
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2014-11-15
  • ISBN : 1612517943
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book A Common Virtue written by James A Hawkins and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a man is difficult—even in the best of circumstances—but when it must be done in 1968 with the Year of the Monkey set to explode onto the cities and battlefields of a war-torn Vietnam, it is only the very best who make the grade. A Common Virtue has the immediacy and punch of today’s fears as it draws on yesterday’s headlines. When the armies of Ho Chi Mihn push across the demilitarized zone on a scale never thought possible and simultaneously strike at hundreds of targets, American Marines are at the forefront—dependent on information from a special reconnaissance force that is the only thing that can stop Hanoi from using a New Year’s opportunity to seize the country. Unfolding against this background is the story of Marine Paul Jackson, the sole survivor of a hillside massacre. A sniper and reconnaissance innovator, his epic march through the annals of the horrific bureaucracy that is the U.S. military in 1968 is the heart of this story. As an eighteen-year-old Marine he learns at an early age what he must do to survive; what he must do to excel; and what he must do to fit into the most exclusive military fraternity in the world. A Common Virtue is about the other half of heroism, the part that pits a warrior against an American public that despises his uniform, against internal factions that brand him a “coward,” and against a beautiful woman who wants nothing more than for him to stay home and love her. It is about growing into manhood in a toxic America and a world gone mad. Tough choices, painful experiences, and an instinct for survival work to create a leader of legend. Exciting, historical, and far reaching, A Common Virtue is an ambitious and explosive creation; one that could only have been written by one who was there.

Book Woman s Medical School  Northwestern University  Woman s Medical College of Chicago

Download or read book Woman s Medical School Northwestern University Woman s Medical College of Chicago written by Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Woman's Medical School, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Progressive Arizona

Download or read book Progressive Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Public School Boy s Who s who

Download or read book Old Public School Boy s Who s who written by OLD PUBLIC SCHOOL-BOYS. and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accountant Student and Accountants  Journal

Download or read book Accountant Student and Accountants Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Senior Lieutenant s Wager

Download or read book The Senior Lieutenant s Wager written by Mary Greene Bonesteel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of Toronto Monthly

Download or read book University of Toronto Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: