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Title My nuclear family : a coming-of-age in America's twenty-first century military / Christopher Brownfield.
Author Brownfield, Christopher J.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  956.7044 BRO    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents In the belly of the beast -- Nuclear family life -- Damn the torpedoes!!! -- Crush depth -- Gunboat diplomats -- Surfacing -- Fish out of water -- The process we do -- The E-team -- Ramadan soirée -- Black gold -- Learning to fly -- Flying solo -- Non sibi sed Petraeus -- The precipitous pullout -- McCainery, chicanery -- Lukewarm fusion -- A thousand points of light -- The night of fire -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Selected letters and correspondence from Iraq -- Appendix B: Post-hearing questions for the record submitted to Major General Ronald L. Johnson from Senator Barack Obama.
Subject Brownfield, Christopher J.
Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American.
Submariners -- United States -- Biography.
Hartford (Submarine)
Nuclear submarines -- Persian Gulf -- History -- 21st century.
Nuclear submarines -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Military life -- History -- 21st century.
Energy policy -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN 9780307271693 : $26.95
0307271692
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