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[2020].
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"American Indians have served in our nation's military since colonial times. For many, military service is an extension of their warrior traditions. Others serve for love of home and country. Throughout Indian Country, servicemen and women are some of the most honored members of their communities. Charged by Congress with creating a memorial on its grounds, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) will dedicate the National Native American...
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"Explores the US Air Force and its powerful fleet of aircraft. Readers will learn about the history of air combat, from World War I to the war in Iraq. Other topics include pilot training and the US Air Force Academy. Readers will also examine aircraft such as the F-35 Lightning II fighter, the B-2 Spirit bomber, and Predator drones" --
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"Explores the US Marine Corps, America's all-purpose military force. Readers will learn about the Corps' history, including its creation during the Revolutionary War. Other topics include Marine training, weapons, and equipment. These include M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles, field artillery, amphibious assault vehicles, M1A1 Abrams tanks, AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, and F-35 Lightning II jets." --
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"Explores the examines the US Navy, the largest navy in the world. Readers will learn about the Navy's origins as the Continental Navy in 1775, during the Revolutionary War. Other topics include training, aircraft carriers, Naval aircraft, amphibious assault ships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, ballistic missile submarines, and attack submarines" --
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"Explores the largest and oldest branch of the US armed forces. Readers will learn of the Army's birth during the Revolutionary War, and of the many wars it has fought in since. Other topics include Army training, the Army National Guard, armored vehicles, artillery, helicopters, paratroopers, and special operations forces" --
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[2008]
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English
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Explore American history firsthand though this nation's most important documents. This book tells the story of a growing, vibrant democracy through its laws, Supreme Court rulings, treaties, and presidential speeches, from colonial times to the present. Organized chronologically, each document includes a brief introduction and excerpts, and often an image of the original. Most are followed by relevant historical quotes from books, newspapers, and...
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[2013]
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All branches of the military offer career opportunities as military pilots, navigators, flight officers, and more. But first, you have to prove yourself by acing an aptitude test. This guide provides everything you need to pass the rigorous testing process.
15) Ever after
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Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship. Then she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily's reunited birth parents, Lauren Gibbs and Shane Galanter.
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In this book the author shows how deeply militarized our culture has become; how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission. Here she charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier, Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792.
20) Into the rising sun: in their own words, World War II's Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat
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2002.
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English
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