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050 00 $aDS79.76$b.M55 2005
082 00 $a956.7044/345$222
100 1 $aMiller, Richard F.,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005023828
245 12 $aA carrier at war :$bon board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War /$cRichard F. Miller.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bPotomac Books,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axii, 243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-2011$xNaval operations, American.
610 20 $aKitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94074421
600 10 $aMiller, Richard F.,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005023828
852 00 $boff,glx$hDS79.76$i.M55 2005