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Category : Fort Riley (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Welcome to Fort Riley
Author: Welcome to Fort Riley
Author: The History of Fort Riley
Author: Woodbury Freeman PridePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Riley (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Fort Riley
Author: Fort Riley
Author: William McKalePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439614679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Founded in 1853, Fort Riley was established to protect merchants and settlers on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails. Fort Riley kept the peace during the Civil War and in 1893, a cavalry school began operation there. Fort Riley continued to train mounted troops during the Golden Age of Cavalry after World War I, but also served as a training site for more than 150,000 troops during the first and second World Wars. This collection of vintage images commemorating the sesquicentennial of Fort Riley is a colorful, patriotic reminder of the military post that has served the nation continuously since its founding 150 years ago.
Souvenir of Fort Riley
Author: Fort Riley (Kan.)Army Community Service Wants You to Know why and where We Are, what and who We Are, how You Can Help, how We Can Help
Author: History of Fort Riley
Author: Woodbury Freeman PridePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Riley (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Good Lieutenant
Author: Whitney TerrellPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Good Lieutenant literally starts with a bang as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler of the Twenty-seventh Infantry Battalion goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead--one, a young Iraqi, by her hand. Others were soldiers in her platoon. And the signals officer, Dixon Pulowski. Pulowski is another story entirely--Fowler and Pulowski had been lovers since they met at Fort Riley in Kansas. From this conflagration, The Good Lieutenant unspools backward in time as Fowler and her platoon are guided into disaster by suspicious informants and questionable intelligence, their very mission the result of a previous snafu in which a soldier had been kidnapped by insurgents. And then even further back, before things began to go so wrong, we see the backstory unfold from points of view that usually are not shown in war coverage--a female frontline officer, for one, but also jaded career soldiers and Iraqis both innocent and not so innocent. Ultimately, as all these stories unravel, what is revealed is what happens when good intentions destroy, experience distorts, and survival becomes everything. Brilliantly told and expertly captured by a terrific writer at the top of his form, Whitney Terrell's The Good Lieutenantis a gripping, insightful, necessary novel about a war that is proving to be the defining tragedy of our time.
Explore Fort Riley
Author: Julie FiedlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733834407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Military families move a lot. Each move raises a lot of questions for the family, especially the kids. "What will my new home be like?" "What is there to do there?" "What if I'm afraid of moving?"If you're moving to Fort Riley, Kansas, this book will help you learn about your new home. With fun facts and information about Fort Riley and the surrounding area, this book will show your family how to say goodbye to your current duty station, get ready, and get excited for the PCS move.