On the Frontline
A Personal Guidebook for the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Challenges of Military Life The demands of military life can be staggering. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines face pressures and temptations that civilians will never know. ... [... more]
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Rick Burgess
Designed and built as a carrier-based attack aircraft in 1944, the A-1 reached frontline units too late to see combat in World War 2. With the advent of jets in the late 1940s, the Skyraider was seen as a dated throwback to the golden age of ... [... more]
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Richard Dee
Richard Dee was born in York, England, into a family of aviators; both his brother and father served as front-line pilots with the RAF. Dee's early career was at the British Library working as a systems analyst before he started undergraduate and ... [... more]
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Joe Connelly
Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes from deep within the ... [... more]
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Farzad Bishop
Different versions of the jet have provided the backbone of the frontline strength of the Iranian air force since the 1970s, and whole generations of Iranian pilots and ground personnel have been trained to fly and maintain them. Indeed, the type ... [... more]
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Shlomo Aloni
Diplomacy, politics and national trauma has dominated the frontline career of the Israeli F-15 to date. In the wake of the losses suffered in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israeli government opted for technology in an effort to reassure a ... [... more]
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Steve Walsh
When the American Civil War broke out in 1861 both Confederate and Union experts decided that specialized sharpshooter units should be formed. These highly trained marksmen served in a front-line role and, due to the technological developments of ... [... more]
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