A telephone call to Senator J. William Fulbrights Washington D. C. Office arranged a change of assignment for new Warrant Officer Pilot Thomas Butler to Medical Evacuation School at Ft Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He could not have known how this factor would affect the future decisions he would make in combat. With only minor glimpses into the challenges faced by a medical evacuation pilot catapulted into the jungles of Vietnam, Mr. Butler presents a rare look into the lives of the men whose task it was to retrieve the wounded from the battlefields and jungles of Vietnam. He tells the story like none other has, Discribing the jobs of men who took pride in their Vietnam Conflict service, and including the writings of a North Vietnamese Officer, Captain Nguyen Van Trang.
Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions is a concise, current text with the most up-to-date information about health care reform and insurance. It is devoted to the most important issues relative to consumer health issues, including advertising, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, weight management, and medications. There are in-depth analyses of the American health care system, insurance options, and consumer protection. The text also takes a critical look at complementary and alternative therapies. Throughout the text, there are guidelines for making decisions that can benefit the individual. A comprehensive list of learning objectives precede each chapter and a list of study questions conclude each chapter. The questions are designed to help the student summarize the major points of the chapter, prepare for exams, and critically analyze the material contained in the chapters. Instructor Resources: PowerPoint Presentations
Though thousands of African slaves escaped or were freed from southern plantations in the United States during the 1860s, very little has been investigated, studied, or discussed about what happened to these new African American United States citizens who had to live out their existence on the North American continent. Since none of the former slaves were provided transportation back to their African homeland, every former slave or former African-American Civil War soldier had a story to tell about how the rest of their life was spent in North America. Many former African American slaves who fought in the civil War were placed in the 9th or 10th Cavalry Regiments that were organized and sent to patrol the Arizona territory after the end of the Civil War were issued horses, rifles, and pistols and learned to use them well. Jacob Savage was a member of a slave family that escaped from a Mississippi plantation before the beginning of the United States Civil War and escaped to Western Canada with the help of the underground railroad where he and his brothers and sister were raised just north of the Montana border of the United States and south of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Range. You will learn how Jacob lived among the American Indian, found a wild stallion, a wolf, and a gold claim in the Sawtooth and Wind River Mountains of the early American West, then journeyed back to his boyhood Canadian home.
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