The Ultimate Air Force Basic Training Guidebook
The Ultimate Air Force Basic Training Guidebook

Author: Nicholas Van Wormer

Publisher: Savas Beatie

Published: 2010-11-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1611210615

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A week-by-week guide to surviving boot camp—includes interviews with recent graduates, recruiters, and instructors. Air Force basic training is challenging both mentally and physically. The Ultimate Guide to Air Force Basic Training shows you, step by step, how to survive and thrive in today’s basic training program. Beginning with the recruiting process and taking you all the way through basic training graduation day, this book answers your questions and helps alleviate your fears and concerns as you enter this new and exciting period of your life. Senior Airman Nicholas Van Wormer’s book is a fresh and updated insider’s view of what you will encounter and how to perform in order to graduate at the top of your class. It also includes interviews with recent basic training graduates, recruiters, and even military training instructors to better provide you with the most detailed guide to Air Force basic training ever published. It also explains acronyms and terms, mistakes to avoid, the all-important ASVAB test—and even offers tips on what to bring with you. Whether you’re getting ready to ship out to basic training or just looking into the different military options available to you, The Ultimate Guide to Air Force Basic Training is an invaluable tool that will help guide you through. Whether you are getting ready to ship out to basic training or just looking into the different military options available to you, The Ultimate Guide to Air Force Basic Training is an invaluable tool that will help guide you through an otherwise daunting and difficult process.

The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook
The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook

Author: Michael C. Volkin

Publisher: Michael Volkin

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1932714111

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This book will prepare a recruit, mentally and physically, for basic training in the U.S. Army. It offers practical and unique solutions to challenges encountered by new recruits. Inside you'll find an 8-week fitness program specifically designed to improve your fitness test scores, study guides, an instructional "How to ..." chapter, a list of what to bring (and not to bring) to basic training, tips for success, and much more.

The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook
The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook

Author: Michael Volkin

Publisher: Grub Street Publishers

Published: 2007-10-04

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1611210100

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How to prepare—mentally and physically—for life in the armed forces. Making the transition from civilian to soldier can be tough. Knowing what to expect can help. In this guide, Michael Volkin, who enlisted in the US Army after 9/11—and found himself unprepared for the new world of the military with its unknown acronyms, demanding exercises, and other challenges—provides valuable information about the process. During his own basic training, he began taking extensive notes, and while serving in Iraq he interviewed hundreds of other soldiers—in order to put together this book in the hopes of making things easier for future recruits in any branch of the armed forces. The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook offers: Step-by-step instructions and solutions Helpful charts and graphics A special eight-week fitness program specifically designed to improve your fitness test scores Study guides A list of what to bring (and what not to bring) to basic training And much more

Joining the United States Air Force
Joining the United States Air Force

Author: Snow Wildsmith

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0786491191

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This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Air Force. It will walk him or her through the enlistment and recruit training process: making the decision to join the military, talking to recruiters, getting qualified, preparing for and learning what to expect at basic recruit training. The goal of the McFarland Joining the Military book series is to help young people who might be curious about serving in the military decide whether military service is right for them, which branch is the best fit, and whether they are qualified for and prepared for military service. Features include lists of books, web links, and videos; a glossary; and an index.

Talking Conflict
Talking Conflict

Author: Anna M. Wittmann

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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In today's information era, the use of specific words and language can serve as powerful tools that incite violence—or sanitize and conceal the ugliness of war. This book examines the complex, "twisted" language of conflict. Why is the term "collateral damage" used when military strikes kill civilians? What is a "catastrophic success"? What is the difference between a privileged and unprivileged enemy belligerent? How does deterrence differ from detente? What does "hybrid warfare" mean, and how is it different from "asymmetric warfare"? How is shell shock different from battle fatigue and PTSD? These are only a few of the questions that Talking Conflict: The Loaded Language of Genocide, Political Violence, Terrorism, and Warfare answers in its exploration of euphemisms, "warspeak," "doublespeak," and propagandistic terms. This handbook of alphabetically listed entries is prefaced by an introductory overview that provides background information about how language is used to obfuscate or minimize descriptions of armed conflict or genocide and presents examples of the major rhetorical devices used in this subject matter. The book focuses on the "loaded" language of conflict, with many of the entries demonstrating the function of given terms as euphemisms, propaganda, or circumlocutions. Each entry is accompanied by a list of cross references and "Further Reading" suggestions that point readers to pertinent sources for further research. This book is ideal for students—especially those studying political science, international relations, and genocide—as well as general readers.

American Military Life in the 21st Century [2 volumes]
American Military Life in the 21st Century [2 volumes]

Author: Eugenia L. Weiss

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-11-16

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1440855196

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A comprehensive guide to the lives and experiences of military service members, veterans, and their families in the United States today, with special emphasis given to those of the post-9/11 era. This reference work provides detailed information on the issues U.S. service members face both stateside and during deployments overseas. Issues covered include relations with family; substance use; housing; educational and job training opportunities; post-traumatic stress disorder and other health issues; and experiences of women, sexual minorities, and ethnic/racial minorities in the armed services. This set also examines major issues related to military service for people close to the men and women who serve our country, such as spouses or partners, children, and parents grappling with such issues as single parenthood during deployment and bereavement at the loss of a loved one. Finally, this set is a valuable resource for people seeking a greater understanding of the issues that confront some military service members and veterans, from chronic health problems to economic vulnerability to suicide to incarceration. The two volumes are written in a comprehensive yet succinct and accessible style by experts familiar with the latest trends and findings.

Basic: Surviving Boot Camp and Basic Training
Basic: Surviving Boot Camp and Basic Training

Author: Jack Jacobs

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0312622775

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From a Medal of Honor winner--the first book that provides a documented and oral history of an American institution: basic training. This book brings back memories for the 40 million people who have gone through it, and offers outsiders a look inside this life-changing experience.

Making the Immigrant Soldier
Making the Immigrant Soldier

Author: Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2023-04-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 025205430X

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Immigrants to the United States have long used the armed forces as a shortcut to citizenship. Cristina-Ioana Dragomir profiles Lily, Alexa, and Vikrant, three immigrants of varying nationalities and backgrounds who chose military service as their way of becoming American citizens. Privileging the trio’s own words and experiences, Dragomir crafts a human-focused narrative that moves from their lives in their home countries and decisions to join the military to their fraught naturalization processes within the service. Dragomir illuminates how race, ethnicity, class, and gender impacted their transformation from immigrant to soldier, veteran, and American. She explores how these factors both eased their journeys and created obstacles that complicated their access to healthcare, education, economic resources, and other forms of social justice. A compelling union of analysis and rich storytelling, Making the Immigrant Soldier traces the complexities of serving in the military in order to pursue the American dream.

The Military and Teens
The Military and Teens

Author: Kathlyn Gay

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0810858010

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Examines the major issues teens should consider before they decide to join the armed forces, highlighting the pros and cons of military services in all branches of the United States armed forces.

The Real Insider's Guide to Military Basic Training
The Real Insider's Guide to Military Basic Training

Author: Peter Thompson

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1581125976

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This book is the one many people in the military do not want recruits to read. The guide contains extremely helpful hints and advice to help new enlistees during the rigors of military training. Most important, the information is free from biased interests because it is "written by a recruit for a recruit." Although tailored toward the Army and Marines, any person enlisting in the Armed Forces will find the information exceedingly valuable. Even if a person is just thinking about the military, this book will help.