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This digital document is an article from Airman, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Wet n' wild at Fairchild.(dealing with in-flight emergency)(Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington)
Author: Wagers Scott
Publication: Airman (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 49Issue: 7Page: 36(2)

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This digital document is an article from Naval War College Review, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 424 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.(OF SPECIAL INTEREST)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Naval War College Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Volume: 60Issue: 1Page: 159(2)

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This digital document is an article from Community College Week, published by Thomson Gale on June 4, 2007. The length of the article is 660 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: House approves extended benefits for soldiers, reservists.(dateline washington)
Author: Charles Pekow
Publication: Community College Week (Newspaper)
Date: June 4, 2007
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Volume: 19Issue: 20Page: 10(1)

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They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I:air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can.Carrier includes:* Takeoffs and landings: flying into the danger zone
* The aircraft onboard: their range, their power, their weaponry
* The role of the carrier in modern naval warfare
* Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams
Plus: An interview with the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay Johnson
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Customer Reviews (21)

Good but outdated
Good but outlines the carrier forces of 1997.Much has happened since then to change the face of warfare in the world.Esp. 9/11

One of the best of the series
This is one of the best of Clancy's Guided Tour series. Like all of them, the book is very informative, but this one doesn't get so bogged down in plane specs as to become unreadable as some have. Of course, technology has moved on in the last decade and the book hasn't, but the book can't be blamed for that. You just have to realize what it is, and accept it for what it is. The only drawback of the book is that while it is very detailed about the ships and especially the planes, little is said of the daily life of the sailors on a carrier. This may be because there are so many sailors with so many varied duties that an overall picture of one would not be representative of the whole, but I would have liked a bit more of picture of the human element. Still a good, informative book.

A book needed for research
This book was needed for research my husband is doing for a book he is writing. It is nothing like it but he neede the terms used in it and since the terms are not readily available on the web I ordered the book for him. Boy did it come in handy. I am really grateful to Amazon.com for having it.

Hard to beat Clancy
As always, Tom Clancy's research into a subject is beyond reproach.As a veteran of 28 years involved in Naval air (and the son of a Naval officer with the same tenure), it's good to be brought up to date by someone I respect in this arena.Clancy does a great job of getting one through the "An Officer and a Gentleman" Pensacola experience, and into the ready room.

A primer on modern naval air warfare....
Carrier, the sixth book in Tom Clancy's Guided Tour non-fiction series about America's armed forces, is a detailed look at the Navy's grande dame, the aircraft carrier and associated battle group (CVBG).Even 63 years after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ended the reign of the big-gun battleship and despite the lethality of nuclear attack submarines, the carrier, with its 70+ plane air wing and assorted escorts, is still the most powerful, versatile, and visible symbol of American sea power.

Once again, Clancy and series collaborator John D. Gresham take the reader where no ordinary civilian can easily go.From the Pentagon office of Admiral Jay Johnson (who at the time was Chief of Naval Operations) to the bustling -- and dangerous -- flight deck of the Nimitz-class USS Harry S Truman, the authors explain the role of the modern carrier group in today's world, as well as describing each ship -- from carrier to guided missile escorts -- and aircraft that makes the CVBG the "big stick" of American foreign policy.

At the time of publication (2000), the Navy was still in the midst of the transition from large 90 aircraft carrier air wings (CAW), and strike pilots were completing the handover of air-to-ground attack missions from the venerable A-6 Intruder to the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet.Other changes discussed by Clancy and Gresham are the eventual phasing out of the F-14 Tomcat, the long-range interceptor made famous by Tom Cruise's 1986 mega-hit Top Gun. Although still a formidable aircraft, the Tomcat -- which has never fired its prime long range missile, the Phoenix, in combat -- is now a 32-year-old design and due to be replaced by late generation F/A-18 Hornet variants and the new Joint Strike Fighter now in development.

As in all the Guided Tour books, there are chapters devoted to all the elements that make a CVBG such a valuable fleet asset.Much of the book focuses on the Nimitz-class carrier's design, construction, power plant (or at least as much as the Navy will allow the authors to divulge for security reasons), and the embarked air wing.However, Clancy emphasizes the human element and describes the training and daily lives of the sailors and airmen that operate the various ships and aircraft of the CVBG.

Clancy also continues the tradition of ending his Guided Tour books with a short but entertaining fictional account of a unit in action.In this case, the author looks forward at the world in 2016, pitting the United States in a short but fierce confrontation with India after "the world's largest democracy" has a nuclear exchange with its Muslim neighbor Pakistan and becomes erratic in its foreign policy.

Although Clancy is hardly objective when writing about the military -- he clearly loves the services -- he does provide the public valuable insights into what the Navy does and the tasks our men and women in uniform perform daily in times of war and peace.Carrier, therefore, is an informative and entertaining primer on today's Navy...and tells the reader exactly why every President since World War II has asked, in times of crisis, "where are the carriers?" ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict. ... Read more

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This is what Jordan had to say-- (3rd grade)
Have you ever seen your grandpa? Well in The Wall by Eve Bunting it teaches you that even though somebody you know died or if you never saw them doesn't mean you have to forget about them .The little boy didn't forget about his grandpa even though he never saw him and also by trying to find his name on the wall. The little boy and his dad go to the Vietnam War Wall. The wall has every soldier's name who died in the war. Flowers and other things are laid by the wall. The boy lays a picture of him by the wall and covers the edges with stone. Will they find his grandpa's name?

This reminds me of when I saw a man with no legs at the mall, like when the little boy saw a man with no legs. The two differences are that the guy I saw had no soldier suit on the man in The Wall does. Also the man I saw was at the mall not the wall.

Do you like sad stories? Well you'll like The Wall just like me. I like The Wall because it's sad. Like when his grandpa got shot. The boy didn't get to see his grandpa. I can also visualize it like when the author describes the wall as "black and shiny as a mirror you could see the bare trees behind."

Emotions Run High
"The Wall" by Eve Bunting is a very emotional story about a young boy and his father who visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.It creatively tells the story of a father and son who are looking for the name of a loved one on the wall.Although the story is written in simple language, it carries deep rooted emotion along with it.The language and pictures add so much to the emotion of the book.The fact that the memorial exists in real life is a great way to tie the story into a classroom full of young students eager to learn more.Bunting has produced a very well written book that touches the hearts of readers through a moving storyline which leaves readers with a sense of affection towards family and country.

A stark memorial
So many things are accomplished in this haunting story of one dad and his son making that long trip to visit father/grandfather, whose name is etched into the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. Eve Bunting and Ronald Himler are respectful, reverent, and nostalgic in telling this story in "The Wall."

I've been there and wondered how the pair would depict the memorial. What they put on paper is exactly what happens at the Wall, exactly! To make the experience wide-eyed and innocent, the author relays the story through this little boy's perspective. He's been prepared: he knows they have come to locate grandfather's name as one of 58,000 killed and missing in action.

Bunting chooses to by-pass the location catalog and simply use 1967, the year Grandfather died in the war. Once they find his name, Dad takes out paper to use with pencil to rub his father's name as a keepsake. They leave a picture of the grandson below the deceased soldier's name. The boy has already explored some of the items that relatives and friends leave at the base of the Wall.

The pair encounter four types of visitors: an elderly couple obviously visiting their son's name, a grandfather and grandson visiting the soldier-dad's name, and a group of girls on a field trip. Their behavior is proper, but not reflective of loss such as the others experience. The last visitor becomes the most deeply moving encounter. A man in a wheelchair with a blanket folded over where his legs should have been, an obvious veteran with a decorated ribbon, and obviously a Vietnam vet, rolls in. It is a chance meeting the boy will never forget.

When they leave, the boy is sad, but wiser. He's been to the memorial erected in his grandfather's honor, as well as the 58,000 companions. He would like a grandpa as the other boy had, but he is proud to know his grandfather served his country.

As an interesting side note, the father-son duo look to be Native American in an honorable tribute to an under-recognized minority who also participated in this war.

Not one sentence of the story is overstated, not one illustration false. Script and art work in tandem in presenting a quiet little story concerning an utterly cosmic wound in the American psyche.

Remembering in a Time of Forgetting
While I read, the quiet in my fifth grade room shifted from obligatory classroom quiet to a sense of solemn reverence.As with so many Eve Bunting books, this one is important and takes complex issues and breaks them down and gives younger children some excellent critical thinking opportunities.And it's particularly relevant now.We are a country engaged in two wars that aren't spoken about much these days.War has taken a place on the back pages of newspapers.And here we are again, forgetting veterans, forgetting soldiers, and repeating so many mistakes from the past.The book was as much for me as it was for my kids.

Chris Bowen
Author of, "Our Kids: Building Relationships in the Classroom"

Excellent
This book was sent on time and received on time! It made a great addition to my classroom! Thank you so much! ... Read more