Remote Outpost

Author : Travis Harman
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781036103286

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Remote Outpost by Travis Harman Pdf

The true story of a father and son who enlist in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard after the horrors of 9/11 shake the nation. Travis Harman, a young skater punk from the small farming town of Hughesville, PA has never had a close relationship with his father, Dean, but after 9/11 shakes the nation, Travis and Dean enlist in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard together. Shortly after joining, Travis begins to have second thoughts and devises a plan to leave the Army. Once back in Hughesville, he realizes the only way he’ll ever gain his father’s acceptance is to enlist, and so he reverses course and joins again. This time, now fully committed, Travis endures rigorous basic and advanced training at Fort Benning and Fort Gordon, Georgia. Just as advanced training ends, Dean helps Travis get work at Fort Indiantown Gap supporting the training of troops preparing to deploy. As Travis prepares to head back to Hughesville, Dean calls informing him that father and son will be deploying to Afghanistan together. Travis and Dean deploy to Afghanistan in December of 2008, heading to Fort Bragg, North Carolina first. After three months of train up, Travis is sent to a remote outpost in the northeast part of the country, while his father has a cushy desk job at Bagram Airfield. Travis is pulled into often horrific realities of modern war as he experiences intense combat all while yearning for his father’s acceptance. Travis goes back to Bagram and sees his father in transit to Qatar where he will be going on pass for some much-needed rest and relaxation. The tales of Travis’ bravery under fire reach his father before Travis arrives, and when he greets his father once again, Travis starts to feel accepted by his father, a feeling he has chased since boyhood.

Author : Jake Tapper
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316215855

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The Outpost by Jake Tapper Pdf

The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan, acclaimed by critics everywhere as a classic. At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53 Americans there prevailed against nearly 400 Taliban fighters, their casualties made it the deadliest fight of the war for the U.S. that year. Four months after the battle, a Pentagon review revealed that there was no reason for the troops at Keating to have been there in the first place. In The Outpost, Jake Tapper gives us the powerful saga of COP Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of soldiers and their families, and to a place and war that has remained profoundly distant to most Americans. A runaway bestseller, it makes a savage war real, and American courage manifest. "The Outpost is a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you need to read this book." -- Jon Krakauer

Author : J T H Connor,Stephen Curtis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317322696

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Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800–2000 by J T H Connor,Stephen Curtis Pdf

This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Dan Richards
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781786891563

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Outpost by Dan Richards Pdf

There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State; from Iceland’s ‘Houses of Joy’ to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl’s writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?

Author : Howard Williams,Melanie Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780198753537

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Archaeologists and the Dead by Howard Williams,Melanie Giles Pdf

Papers from two conference sessions: the first took place at Easter 2010 as part of the Southport IfA annual conference, the second in December 2010 at the Bristol TAG conference.

Author : Jennifer Line,G. D. Racey,Ontario. Northwest Science & Technology
Publisher : [Thunder Bay] : Ontario, Northwest Science & Technology
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Caribou
ISBN : MINN:31951P003618263

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Estimate of Relative Aesthetic Impact of Northwest Region Caribou Strategy on Remote Tourism by Jennifer Line,G. D. Racey,Ontario. Northwest Science & Technology Pdf

"A Remote Tourism Decision Support System (RT-DSS) was used to explore how implementing the Northwest Region caribou strategy might affect remote tourism. The RT-DSS models the preference of remote fly-in outpost clients for a total of 25 variables."--Abstract.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCAL:$B791922

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Bowman,Frank Chiteji,J. Megan Greene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315508115

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Imperialism in the Modern World by William Bowman,Frank Chiteji,J. Megan Greene Pdf

Imperialism in the Modern World combines narrative, primary and secondary sources, and visual documents to examine global relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The three co-editors, Professors Bowman, Chiteji, and Greene, have taught for many years global history classes in a variety of institutions. They wrote Imperialism in the Modern World to solve the problem of allowing teachers to combine primary and secondary texts easily and systematically to follow major themes in global history (some readers use primary materials exclusively. Some focus on secondary arguments). This book is more focused than other readers on the markets for those teachers who are offering more specialized world history courses - one important trend in global history is away from simply trying to cover everything to teaching real connections in more chronologically and thematically focused courses. The reader also provides a genuine diversity of global perspectives and invites students to study seriously world history from a critical framework. Too many readers offer a smorgasbord approach to world history that leaves students dazed and confused. This reader avoids that approach and will therefore solve many problems that teachers have in constructing and teaching world history courses at the introductory or upper-division levels. The reader will allow show students how to read historical documents through a hands-on demonstration in the introduction. The book also incorporates images as visual documents. Finally, the book conceives of global history in the widest possible terms; it contains pieces on political, diplomatic, economic, and military history, to be sure, but it also has selections on technology, medicine, women, the environment, social changes, and cultural patterns. Other readers can not match this text's breadth because they are chronologically and thematically so extended.

Author : Michael P Heilen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315416236

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Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis by Michael P Heilen Pdf

This volume presents a sophisticated set of archival, forensic, and excavation methods to identify both individuals and group affiliations—cultural, religious, and organizational—in a multiethnic historical cemetery. Based on an extensive excavation project of more than 1,000 nineteenth-century burials in downtown Tucson, Arizona, the team of historians, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, and community researchers created an effective methodology for use at other historical-period sites. Comparisons made with other excavated cemeteries strengthens the power of this toolkit for historical archaeologists and others. The volume also sensitizes archaeologists to the concerns of community and cultural groups to mortuary excavation and outlines procedures for proper consultation with the descendants of the cemetery’s inhabitants. Copublished with SRI Press

Author : Jay Phillips
Publisher : Izzard Ink
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642280425

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A Shau by Jay Phillips Pdf

Nestled in Vietnam’s Thua Thien Province, west of the city of Hue, and bordering Laos, the narrow 40-kilometer long A Shau Valley, situated between densely forested mountain ranges, witnessed prolonged campaigning throughout the Vietnam War and served as a hub of the Communist supply network as well as a key point of access to South Vietnam. Drawing upon an impressive array of archival materials, this deeply researched book offers the first comprehensive account of operations and battles that transpired there during the war, coupled with a trenchant analysis of the American failure to wrest control of the Valley despite years of commitment of troops and resources, and how that failure contributed to the final outcome of the war. In so doing, it not only sheds light on where military tactics and strategy devised by American leaders went awry, but also traces the extraordinary acts of heroism on the part of American soldiers, many of whom lost their lives fighting the North Vietnamese in this hostile, forbidding terrain. This book, which fills a gap in the historiography of the Vietnam War, will appeal to scholars seeking to enhance their understanding of major events and turning points in the war, as well as to students of military history and strategy.

Author : Brendan Kavanagh,Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny,Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350293151

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Conrad Without Borders by Brendan Kavanagh,Grazyna Maria Teresa Branny,Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech Pdf

A diverse and multinational volume, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad's narratives across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on the transtextual and transcultural elements of his fiction. Featuring contributions from distinguished and emergent Conrad scholars, it unpacks the transformative meanings which Conrad's narratives have achieved in crossing national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Featuring studies on the reception of Conrad in modern China, an exploration of Conrad's relationship with India, a comparative study of the hybrid art of Conrad and Salman Rushdie, and the responses of Conrad's narratives to alternative media forms, this volume brings out transtextual relations among Conrad's works and various media forms, world narratives, philosophies, and emergent modes of critical inquiry. Gathering essays by contributors from Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this volume constitutes an inclusive, transnational networking of emergent border-crossing scholarship.

Author : Peter D. Skirbunt
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:30000009434410

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The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its predecessors, since 1989 by Peter D. Skirbunt Pdf

Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.

Author : Haym Benaroya
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420083333

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Lunar Settlements by Haym Benaroya Pdf

Bringing together some of the most recognized and influential researchers and scientists in various space-related disciplines, Lunar Settlements addresses the many issues that surround the permanent human return to the Moon. Numerous international contributors offer their insights into how certain technological, physiological, and psychological challenges must be met to make permanent lunar settlements possible. The book first looks to the past, covering the Apollo and Saturn legacies. In addition, former astronaut and U.S. Senator Harrison H. Schmitt discusses how to maintain deep space exploration and settlement. The book then discusses economic aspects, such as funding for lunar commerce, managing human resources, and commercial transportation logistics. After examining how cultural elements will fit into habitat design, the text explores the physiological, psychological, and ethical impact of living on a lunar settlement. It also describes the planning/technical requirements of lunar habitation, the design of both manned and modular lunar bases, and the protection of lunar habitats against meteoroids. Focusing on lunar soil mechanics, the book concludes with discussions on lunar concrete, terraforming, and using greenhouses for agricultural purposes. Drawing from the lunar experiences of the six Apollo landing missions to the many American and Soviet robotic missions to current space activities and research, this volume summarizes the problems, prospects, and practicality of enduring lunar settlements. It reflects the key disciplines, including engineering, physics, architecture, psychology, biology, and anthropology, that will play significant roles in establishing these settlements.

Author : Edward Jarvis
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271091679

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The Anglican Church in Burma by Edward Jarvis Pdf

Sometimes presumed to be a mere relic of British colonialism, the Anglican Church in Burma (Myanmar) has its own complex identity, intricately interwoven with beliefs and traditions that predate the arrival of Christianity. In this essential volume, Edward Jarvis succinctly reconstructs this history and demonstrates how Burma’s unique voice adds vital context to the study of Anglicanism’s predicament and the future of worldwide Christianity. Over the past two hundred years, the Anglican Church in Burma has seen empires rise and fall. Anglican Christians survived the brutal Japanese occupation, experienced rampant poverty and environmental disaster, and began a tortuous and frustrating quest for peace and freedom under a lawless dictatorship. Using a range of sources, including archival documents and the firsthand accounts of Anglicans from a variety of backgrounds, Jarvis tells the story of the church’s life beyond empire, exploring how Christians of non-Western heritage remade the church after a significant part of its liturgical documents and literature was destroyed in World War Two and how, more recently, the church has gained attention for its alignment with influential conservative and orthodox movements within Anglicanism. Comprehensive and concise, this fascinating history will appeal to scholars and students of religious studies, World Christianity, church history, and the history of missions and theology as well as to clergy, seminarians, and those interested in the current crises and future direction of Anglicanism.

Author : Lisa M. Mundey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476688893

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Fighting the Forever War by Lisa M. Mundey Pdf

During two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. service members confronted numerous challenges in their mission to secure the country from the threat of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and assist in rebuilding efforts. Because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan occurred simultaneously, much of the American public conflated them or failed to notice the Afghanistan War; and most of the war's archival material remains classified and closed to civilian researchers. Drawing on interviews and letters home, this book relates the Afghanistan War through the experiences of American troops, with firsthand accounts of both combat and humanitarian operations, the environment, living conditions and interactions with the locals.