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The Military and Teens. The Ultimate Teen Guide

Name: The Military and Teens. The Ultimate Teen Guide
Rating: 4.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780810866720

Kathlyn Gay

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The Military and Teens covers the major issues young adults should consider before making a decision to join the armed forces. Although each branch of the military provides print and electronic materials on what it has to offer enlistees, very few YA books take a pro-and-con look at military service. Moreover, commercial military books mostly cover specific wars or give tips on surviving induction and training. From deciding to serve, to what it's like to face death, to being forced to kill, to discrimination in the military, and to life afterwards, this work presents the benefits and downsides of military service. Kathlyn Gay covers the many available choices of careers in the military and points out where to go for more information. Both primary and secondary sources have been used to provide information on young participants in the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, World Wars I & II, as well as the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf wars. In the final pages of the...

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Year:

2008

Publisher:

Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group;Scarecrow Press

Language:

English

Pages:

128

ISBN 13:

9780810866720