"What distinguishes Richard F. Miller's A Carrier at War is its focus on individual officers, sailors, and shipboard morale as distinct from the usual "bomb and bullet" reporting. The USS Kitty Hawk's mission paralleled the tortuous course of events leading up to the Iraq Wa...

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1. Verfasser:	Miller, Richard F., 1951-
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2005.
Ausgabe:	1st ed.
Schlagworte:	Miller, Richard F., > 1951- Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier) 2003-2011 Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Naval operations, American. HISTORY > Military. Military operations, Naval > American Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East. History & Archaeology. Middle East. Golfkrieg > 2003 Kitty Hawk > Schiff Iraq USA Iraq War, 2003- > Naval operations, American Kitty Hawk > Aircraft carrier Miller, Richard F. > 1951-
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Zusammenfassung:	"What distinguishes Richard F. Miller's A Carrier at War is its focus on individual officers, sailors, and shipboard morale as distinct from the usual "bomb and bullet" reporting. The USS Kitty Hawk's mission paralleled the tortuous course of events leading up to the Iraq War. Originally stationed in the northern Persian Gulf to enforce the Southern No-Fly Zone, the Kitty Hawk became one of the lead elements in the campaign to "shock and awe" the Iraqi armed forces, from the moment her battle group launched the Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first effort to kill Saddam Hussein to the round-the-clock sorties of fighter jets launched from her deck once hostilities began The author, who remained with the carrier through the beginning of hostilities, interviewed the ship's captain, chaplains, aviators, the ship psychologist, doctors, the dentist, and the chief of security. He visited the brig, interviewed the jailors, ate with both officers and enlisted men and women, and, on the brink of war, attended both Christian and Jewish religious services." "Perhaps of greatest importance, owing to his cigar habit, he spent many hours in the one place on board where the real face of life at sea can be observed - the enlisted personnel's smoking sponson. Here the crew relaxed and proved honest enough to enable the author to make his most surprising discoveries about the modern military. In A Carrier at War, Richard F. Miller spotlights the individuals who are fighting America's wars in the U.S. Navy."--Jacket
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations, map
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781429485920 1429485922