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Welcome to Peace After Combat, a BEHIND THE SERVICE podcast with your hosts, Dr Tiffany Tajiri, a clinical psychologist, Air Force Veteran and author, and Retired Army Colonel Alex Gonzales. Learn about the connection between faith, spirituality and psychology and how to find peace after painful life experiences. Real Truths, through Real Talk about Real Life.

Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor to in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the rules have constantly evolved. Today, when killing the enemy can seem palpably risk-free and tantamount to playing a violent video game, what constitutes warfare? What is the effect of remote combat on individual soldiers? And what are the unforeseen repercussions that could affect us all?

F-16 fighter pilot, American hero, Folds of Honor founder, and family man Dan Rooney delivers a code for living - an inspirational call to action to help ordinary people ascend to their highest level in life. In this world of identity politics, PC police, misplaced morals, and external noise, Rooney’s book will show how all of us are connected by God in more ways than we realize, and that the path to fulfillment begins with changing ourselves in order to better one another.

In this history of the steamboat era, Mark Twain and Capt. Ed Heckmann, last of the great steamboat pilots, tell what it was like from their own experiences...Here you will find plantation families, learn how to read the water, vividly experience the most terrible wrecks, and ride the relief boat rescuing survivors when much of Louisiana was under ten feet of water from the great flood of 1882, all this and much more.

UFO Chronicles is an unprecedented and uncensored film series featuring the top authorities on the UFO enigma. Pilots, astronauts, government officials, military officials, medical experts, scientists, religious leaders, and more reveal in never-before-seen interviews, the ramifications of the alien presence on planet Earth. The UFO Chronicles collector’s series discloses information you were never meant to know.

This true story is told by a radio DJ on sabbatical into the counterculture of hippies, war protesters, and college students warped in a time of free love, wild sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll that was 1971. The story begins quite deliberately as an innocent meeting of strangers where the listener gets to know each character, then ends in a wild orgy of pleasure with an unexpected surprise.

The UFO Chronicles collector’s series discloses information you were never meant to know. Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens was one of the world's most highly regarded UFO researchers. Wendelle spent much of his life involved in ufology and amassed one of the largest collections of UFO photos known to be in existence. Colonel Stevens tells of his experiences involving extraterrestrials, the history of various US military special programs, and reveals numerous cases involving the sighting, investigating, and recovery of Alien craft.

A classical collection of recitations by the master narrator Zia Mohyeddin. Volume 16 includes essays and poetry by Agha Haider Mirza, Munshi Faizuddin,N. M. Rashid, Intezaar Hussain, Imtiaz Ali Taj, Ibn-E-Insha and Colonel Mohammad Khan.

Bajang Aamad, one of the classics of Urdu Literature by Colonel Muhammad Khan is a humorous autobiographical account of his time in the army. Colonel Muhammad Khan was a Pakistan Army officer and a war veteran. He also served in the Indian Army of the undivided British India during World War II. The success of this, his first book earned him critical acclaim and he is considered one of the most influential humor writers of his era.

This book is a fascinating insight into the workings of a World War I battalion in action, from the digging of trenches to the organisation of a solid defensive position and the patrolling of no-man’s land. It's also sprinkled with occasional amusing anecdotes that show the spirit of man shining in even the most desperate of situations.

A coming of age tale for the lost, forgotten and those cast aside for not being normal. 15-year-old Matt Potter is like any youth stuck in the foster-care system. He's pissed off at the world and carries a chip on his shoulder. Tired of years of abuse and neglect, Matt takes his destiny into his hands and heads west. Matt soon learns that the Los Angeles punk scene isn't a punk rock utopia. He is thrown head first into the violent world of youth gangs, punk rock music, and teenage love.

This was the first book to cover all of Cold War air combat in the words of the men who waged it. In I Always Wanted to Fly, retired United States Air Force Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel has gathered first-person memories from heroes of the cockpits and airstrips. Battling in dogfights when jets were novelties, saving lives in grueling airlifts, or flying covert and dangerous reconnaissance missions deep into Soviet and Chinese airspace, these flyers waged America's longest and most secretively conducted air war.

On November 20, 1943, in the first trial by fire of America’s fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, 5,000 men stormed the beaches of Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the 300-acre Pentagon parking lots. Before the first day ended, one-third of the marines who had crossed Tarawa’s deadly reef under murderous fire were killed, wounded, or missing. In three days of fighting, four Americans would win the Medal of Honor and six thousand combatants would die.

"Not only have UFOs of many types crash landed on the Earth, but they've been coming here since the dawn of time. Communication has been established," says one military insider. While UFO sightings occur more frequently every year, with more and more credible witnesses across the globe, it’s still hard to grasp that alien spacecraft and their occupants are nothing new to planet Earth and that the military and government factions still attempts to portray that we are alone in the universe.

It was one of the most traumatic events in maritime history, and Archibald Gracie was probably among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912. In this unique account, he describes his personal experiences and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the Atlantic, painting a vivid picture of what it was like on board the Titanic in its final hours.

From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation.

Tell is the riveting story of Major Margaret Witt’s dedicated and decorated military career as a frontline flight nurse, and of her love and devotion to her partner - now wife - Laurie Johnson. Tell captures the tension and drama of the politically charged legal battle that led to the congressional repeal of the controversial law and helped pave the way for a suite of landmark political and legal victories for gay rights.

The proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons is one of the most pressing security threats of the 21st century. From Sudanese refugees hunted by gun-toting militias to air passengers targeted by shoulder-fired missiles, no one is safe from this deadly scourge. Providing a gripping overview of these cheap and easily obtainable weapons, the threat they pose in the wrong hands, and strategies for reining them in, this guide is required listening for anyone wishing to fully understand one of today’s key threats.

Flying helicopters is more dangerous than flying fixed-wing aircraft - and helicopter rescue is one of the most dangerous occupations on earth. Now, Col. Fleming takes listeners along for a bracing ride as he recounts the most thrilling episodes of his long career. With all the nail-biting excitement of a thriller, Heart of the Storm brings to life dramatic jungle rescues in the Philippines, the longest helicopter rescue mission in history to save crew members of a Ukrainian freighter 840 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, and many more.

This audiobook details the youthful adventures of Colonel Heath "Bo" Bottomly. 1. MY LAST BUFFALO - Growing up in Chinook, Montana, Heath "Bo" Bottomly befriends a Nez Perce boy, Little Bear. Together, Heath, Little Bear, and Little Bear's grandfather, Black Feather, travel to the site of the Battle of the Bear Paw, the Nez Perce's Last Stand, against the U.S. Cavalry, in October, 1877.