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Saccolick has also commanded the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School from August 2010 to August 2012. [15] Peter Schoomaker: Retired General. Former Commander of Delta Force from 1989 to 1992 and later commander of JSOC, USASOC and SOCOM. [16] Randy Shughart (1958–1993 †): Medal of Honor recipient.
Camp Nama was a military base in Baghdad, Iraq, originally built by the government of Saddam Hussein, from which its name derives, and now used by Iraqi military forces.. Purportedly, the original Iraqi name has been repurposed by U.S. personnel involved with the facility as a backronym standing for "Nasty Ass Military A
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction.He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists). [1]
John McPhee (born 1931) is an American writer. John McPhee may also refer to: John McPhee (politician) (1878–1952), Premier of Tasmania; John McPhee (footballer) (1937–2015), Scottish footballer; John McPhee (motorcyclist) (born 1994), British Grand Prix motorcycle racer; John Duncan McPhee (1894–1953), physician and politician in Ontario ...
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A Sense of Where You Are, by John McPhee, profiles Bill Bradley during Bradley's senior year at Princeton University.Bradley, who would later play in the National Basketball Association and serve in the United States Senate, was widely regarded as one of the best basketball players in the country, and his status as a Rhodes Scholar playing in the Ivy League only added to his allure.
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [1] It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [2] The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978.
Encounters with the Archdruid (1971) is a narrative nonfiction book by author John McPhee. Encounters is split into three parts, each covering environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies. [1] The book chronicles his struggles against miners, developers and finally the United States Bureau of Reclamation. McPhee ...