Subversion A Shocking True Story of Corruption and Redemption in the Nuclear Submarine Force and the War in Iraq

Name: Subversion A Shocking True Story of Corruption and Redemption in the Nuclear Submarine Force and the War in Iraq
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ISBN: 9781616083496

ISBN-10: 1616083492

ISBN-13: 9781616083496

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Authors: Christopher Brownfield

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It began in 2001. Christopher Brownfield was a naïve young midshipman. His heroes: Oliver North and John McCain. In A Patriot'¬"s Education Brownfield tells of his life-long love affair with the U.S. Navy, how he blindly followed its '¬Srigidity and its clarity in separating right from wrong'¬; how he cut his teeth on its principles of strategy, war doctrine, and weapons systems. He tells of his years serving on a nuclear submarine'¬ ;the first hybrid vehicle capable of sustaining its environment and mission independent of oil and how he received his advanced nuclear supervisory certification and became a nuclear submariner, charged with an entire reactor plant aboard a nuclear warship…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100



Author's Note


Introduction



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 Soirï¿½e



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



Selected Letters and Correspondence from Iraq



Post-Hearing Questions for the Record Submitted to Major General Ronald L. Johnson from Senator Barack Obama


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index