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She was a Jewish girl growing up in World War I-torn Poland. At age seven, she and her family immigrated to America with dreams of a brighter future. But Frances Slanger could not lay her past to rest, and she vowed to help make the world a better place -- by joining the military and becoming a nurse. Frances, one of the 350,000 American women in uniform during World War II, was among the first nurses to arrive at Normandy beach in June 1944. She and the other nurses of the 45th Field Hospital would soon experience the hardships of combat from a storm-whipped tent amid the anguish of wounded men and the thud of artillery shells. Months later, a letter that Frances wrote to the Stars and Stripes newspaper won her heartfelt praise from war-weary GIs touched by her tribute to them. But she never got to read the scores of soldiers' letters that poured in. She was killed by German troops the very next day. American Nightingale is the unforgettable, first-ever full-length account of the woman whose brave life stands as a testament to the American spirit. more...

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This documented briefing addresses the questions of whether militarycompensation is adequate to enable the military services to meet theirmanpower requirements now and in the future and whether action to changemilitary compensation is required now. Major military pay legislation waspassed in 1999 and took effect in Fiscal Year 2000, so there is also aquestion of whether that pay action is sufficient to meet both short-termand long-term challenges in recruiting, retaining, and motivating personnel. more...

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Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) spend long periods at sea, where they cannotattend to their families or to personal business. This reduces morale andaffects retention. The Navy has been exploring ways to allow SWOs more timein home port, and RAND compared the proposed programs’ costs and benefits(though not the direct effects on retention). more...

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This volume provides a definition of capabilities-based planning, puts it in the larger context of defence activity generally and sketches an analytic architecture for carrying it out. more...

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Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation occurs and the types of devastation genocide causes. more...

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