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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series pays tribute to the Army's recruiting sergeants in "Mister Army." From across the United States has come rich detail that has developed into a theme: the career soldier-recruiter who knows and loves the service is the ideal man for helping the younger generation begin its military career with the right foot forward. "Mister Army" is a story about a man who, with one name or...
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This dramatic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series explains the benefits of becoming a career soldier and how it provides them with something to build on. While soldiers in the Regular Army dream of success in civilian life, Spc. Riley learns the Army offers job training and the opportunity to build those qualities necessary for success, as well as benefits for the married soldier and the chance for travel. the Featuring footage...
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Contains sixteen essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to military recruiters, including their exploitation of vulnerable teens, recruiting in schools, counter-recruitment efforts, recruiting quotas, and other topics, and provides contact information for organizations and a bibliography.
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"Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to service members. Beginning in the 1950s, the military flooded armed forces airwaves with the music, hosted tour dates at...
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"Allardice provides detailed biographical information on 1,583 Confederate colonels, both staff and line officers and members of all armies. In his introduction, he explains how one became a colonel -- the mustering process, election of officers, reorganizing of regiments -- and discusses problems of the nominating process, seniority, and "rank inflation""--Provided by publisher.
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Angelo Anderson and his daughter Angela Anderson Jones, conducted on the 21 Oct. 1986 by John Egerton as part of the Homecoming '86 oral history project. Topics discussed during the interview include Anderson's birth, family, and early life in Greece and his immigration to the United States in 1901; his business activities in Nashville, including a shoeshine business and Candyland (7th Avenue and...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted 3 Nov. 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Jones discusses such topics as growing up in East Nashville during the Great Depression; how he became a journalist and started working for the Nashville...