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"Today's navy looks very different from the navy of a few years ago. The end of the Cold War and the fleet drawdown have resulted in more missions - and less of nearly everything else. In travels that took him around the globe, Navy Times reporter Bradley Peniston sought out the ships, aircraft, bases, and people of this new navy."--BOOK JACKET.
"This book captures the triumph, frustration, excitement, and boredom of life in the modern navy. Vivid eyewitness accounts describe the navy at work: hunting submarines above the Arctic Circle, flying over the white-hot Persian Gulf, racing with special boat squadrons off San Diego, prowling in an attack submarine, driving ships off Chile, and painting an orphanage in Romania. Along the way, officers and crews explain what they like and dislike about the navy and their jobs.
Their candid wit and wisdom reveals what it's like to be 'out there.'"--BOOK JACKET.
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Around the World With the U.S. Navy: A Reporter's Tale
December 1999, Naval Institute Press
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1557506655 9781557506658
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Naval Institute Press, 1999. 208 pp., 15 photos, 6 x 9 inches, Hardcover. $25.95 list, ISBN 1-55750-665-5.
As a reporter for Navy Times, Bradley Peniston flew more than 65,000 miles and sailed 3,600 more to visit sailors at work. He found that America’s fleet, built to fight the Soviet Navy on the high seas, had been caught flatfooted by the sudden collapse of the Cold War threat. A decade after the Berlin Wall fell, few ships in the U.S. Navy were doing the missions they were designed to do. Ships and sailors were wrenching themselves into shape for the new battlefields closer to shore.
Peniston wrote the book as an on-the-scene look at the sea service at the end of the 20th century: its ships, aircraft, weapons, bases, and people at work from Iceland to Iraq, from Japan to Chile.
“Excellent…a thoroughly readable and enjoyable book.” — Norman Polmar, naval analyst and author
“Peniston has painted a remarkably detailed, honest portrait of life in today’s Navy.” — Seapower
“An excellent introduction to the Navy’s hardware and various missions around the globe, written by a reporter who interviewed everyone from admirals to deck washers.” — Marine affairs professor Marc J. Hershman, University of Washington
“A keen depiction of the Navy today.” — Florida Times-Union
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