Army Brat Army Bride Civilian A Life

Author : Darlene Gravett
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781489700643

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Army Brat, Army Bride, Civilian: A Life by Darlene Gravett Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Edwards Wertsch
Publisher : Brightwell Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Children of military personnel
ISBN : 9780977603305

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Military Brats by Mary Edwards Wertsch Pdf

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.

Author : R. N. Noveck
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462041619

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Reunited by R. N. Noveck Pdf

Will Fisher volunteers to recruit fellow alums he hasn't seen for forty-five years to attend the 2007 Alumni Reunion of the Poitiers American High School. As an American teenager coming-of-age in France in the late 1950s, Will has special memories of how joining the closely-knit military community made a life altering impact on him and his new friends. Until the reunion weekend, he didn't know how much of an impact. Reunited, The Life and Loves of an Army Brat, is a nostalgic, intricately plotted, multi-generational novel of how Will, through conversations on the phone and during the reunion weekend, relives his unique high school experiences in France and how he and the first two loves of his life, SueAnn and Sloane, have fared since their return to the U.S. His Army Brat background helps him bond with Gina, his future wife, and how, through a Fisher family connection, Gina discovers the details of her deceased mother's experiences during the Holocaust. At the reunion's closing brunch at Will's and Gina's home, SueAnn's glancing at a photo, triggers a long suppressed memory that leads to a stunning discovery that SueAnn, Will, and their families have to resolve.

Author : Daniel Gomez,Johanna Gomez
Publisher : Mascot Books/Amplify
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1637551053

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The Adventures of a Military Brat: My Military Life by Daniel Gomez,Johanna Gomez Pdf

Join a brave boy as he takes readers on a journey that is familiar to military children located around the world. Follow him as he reunites with his cousin, anticipates an upcoming move, adjusts to his father's recent return, and shows pride demonstrating military traditions. About The Adventures of a Military Brat series: Each book highlights unique challenges of growing up in a military family. Join our characters as they turn these challenges into opportunities and build resilience through positive messages.

Author : Caren J. Town
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476651316

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Brat Life by Caren J. Town Pdf

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.

Author : Eric Gansworth
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545631969

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If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth Pdf

"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name. Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white kids being nice to him -- kids like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend? Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock 'n' roll.

Author : Michael Fleeman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429904322

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The Officer's Wife by Michael Fleeman Pdf

***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** A MAN IN UNIFORM He was a captain in the U.S. Air Force. She was a psychologist in Fayetteville, North Carolina. On the surface, Marty and Michelle Theer appeared to be the perfect married couple. But no one knew of the double life Michelle was leading. Tired of spending one too many nights apart from Marty who was often away on his flight missions, Michelle turned to the Internet to meet men and relieve her loneliness. With each encounter, Michelle became more daring in her sexual escapades. But one man stood out among all the rest: former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant John Diamond. A WOMAN IN HEAT The more time Michelle spent with Diamond, the less she wanted to be with her husband. Then on December 17, 2000, Marty was gunned down on a street outside of Michelle's office building. Suspicion first turned to Diamond, and she watched him take the fall for a murder she had masterminded. When authorities went after her, Michelle vanished. For months, federal marshals hunted desperately for Michelle, who had resorted to plastic surgery to avoid the law. In 2002, authorities finally captured her. A CASE THAT SHOCKED THE AMERICAN MILITARY COMMUNITY For three months, a jury would hear graphic testimony delving into the sordid details of Michelle's swinging sex life as the happy veneer of the Theers's marriage was quickly peeled away. But when it came time to decide Michelle Theer's fate, her own shocking actions would finally seal her doom...

Author : Morten G. Ender
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813950068

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Army Spouses by Morten G. Ender Pdf

Distilled from nearly two hundred interviews, conducted from the 2003 invasion of Iraq on, Army Spouses marshals an incredible breadth of individual experiences, range of voices, insider access, and theoretical expertise to tell the story of US Army husbands and wives and their families during wartime in this century. Morten Ender offers the first contemporary study of the emotional cycle of deployment and its impact on military families in the post-9/11 world. Military spouses, as he shows, operate both near and far from the front lines, serving on the home front to support combat service in the so-called Global War on Terror that has intimately bound together soldiers, families, the military institution, the state, and society. He paints a vivid picture of army spouses’ range of responses to deployment separations that illuminates the deep sacrifices that soldiers, veterans, and their families have made over the past twenty years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : UIUC:30112099970425

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Soldiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UIUC:30112100064739

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Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul L. Holbert
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462831142

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Danger Down Under by Paul L. Holbert Pdf

Most people look forward to their annual vacations. Some want to relax and do nothing while others seek the thrill of diving with man-eating sharks or bungee jumping from a suspension bridge high above a rock canyon to stir up their paltry existence. In Danger Down Under, a group of ordinary people from different walks of life find themselves in an extraordinary position. After recently leaving the military, Gary and his wife Amanda are hoping a vacation to Australia will mend their strained marriage. A day of charter fishing ends with them stranded by a storm on a small island with six fellow vacationers, none of who had any such activities in their getaway plans. Its the kind of thing that would make a body hire a new travel agent. While the group of castaways deal with their survival situation, Dr. Larry Williams, a scientist studying marine life off the northern coast of Australia discovers an unusual chemical imbalance of unknown origin in many of his specimens. As he searches for the cause, local residents began to disappear throwing a panic into the police department and the authorities mobilize to join in on the quest for answers. Research leads Dr. Williams to a library in Sydney that hints of a convoy from Germany sunk in 1943 by the American Navy on its way to Japan with a cargo of nerve agent. He also finds corroborating evidence from the local hotel manager whose uncle served as a coast watcher and begins to expose the cover up of a leak that is causing genetic aberrations in the water; one of which is an over sized Komodo Dragon. Mysteriously the uncle is poisoned. Concern over the fate of the shipwrecked tourists grows as the police deal with missing people from the town and Lieutenant Harry Morgan, commander of the search and rescue station, sends several vessels out to comb the area. Little does Dr. Williams know that there are forces at work trying to hamper his research and prevent him from learning any more than he already has. He eventually convinces his friend Captain Dave Weeks, an Army officer stationed in Hawaii, to listen to his conscience and help him expose the cover up. Risking his career and prison, Captain Weeks steals secret files about the convoy and leaves for Australia to assist the scientist. As science and government head on a collision course, the creature prowling the strait in search of food terrorizes Gary and his fellow castaways. It has developed a healthy appetite for human flesh by the way. Concerned that their safety is in jeopardy they decide to launch Gary out in their life raft to hopefully run down a passing boat or plane only to have him pounded by a storm. He is finally picked up by one of Lieutenant Morgans cutters but, thanks to the storm, no longer knows which direction he came from. The story comes to a head when Gary attempts to lead a rescue mission back for his wife and her fellow castaways before government agents can find them. Standing in their way is the government bureaucracy that wants to keep the secret intact and the creature that mans indifference has created. No boring 35mm vacation slides from this trip.

Author : Kathie Hightower,Holly Scherer
Publisher : Elva Resa Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781934617182

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Military Spouse Journey by Kathie Hightower,Holly Scherer Pdf

Military spouses: Craft your best life possible! "... This great resource is full of practical advice as well as real-world examples that will empower spouses to have a life of their own while supporting their partners in the military lifestyle ..."—Ellie Kay, author, military spouse, and CEO of Heroes at Home The unique components of military life can make it challenging for military spouses to pursue careers and other personal dreams. This encouraging book, written by two experienced military spouses, shares lessons learned, success stories of fellow military spouses, life exploration exercises, and research-based ideas that can be applied to any stage of life's journey. Although this book shares examples specific to military life, the information and approach can be used by anyone to pursue your life dreams. Ready to follow your dreams? This book will help you: • Learn five keys to happiness you can apply every day, anywhere. • Explore your passions, strengths, and goals. • Discover possibilities for the life you want to live. • Create an action plan to move forward, even when you think it’s impossible. • Build valuable friendships and support systems along the way. • Enjoy the journey! First Lady of the Marine Corps Recommended Reading List Midwest Book Awards Silver

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : IND:30000137460543

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89061896148

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Assembly by United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCR:31210019452422

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf