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Living the Dream: A Military Coming of Age Story

Tanya S. Crabb

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Description:Mya Russell joined the Marines at 18 for one reason – to escape her mother. Two years after enlisting, she’s found a home of sorts at Camp Lejeune. She has a desk job, colleagues, and friends. She’s even managed to find love. Her life back in Brooklyn seems almost far enough away. Finally she has begun to feel settled.Then came Desert Storm. Living the Dream opens with Mya headed to the Persian Gulf with her best friend Kev, her ex-best friend Jamie, and a plane full of Marines. Only a handful of them are women. The women arrive in Saudi Arabia to find themselves surrounded by thousands of men, unfamiliar faces, and unsafe surroundings. Initially tensions are high among the women – most of whom didn’t get along in the States – until they are thrown together and forced to put their differences aside in order to work and live in a combat environment. When the unimaginable happens, Mya and the women of her unit discover they must band together to survive.Living the Dream provides a woman’s view of life in the military, and in particular, tells the story of one Jamaican-American woman as she tries to overcome personal and emotional challenges. It is a story of courage, commitment, love, and friendship under fire.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Living the Dream: A Military Coming of Age Story. To get started finding Living the Dream: A Military Coming of Age Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 245

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Independent Publisher

Release: 2021

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Description: Mya Russell joined the Marines at 18 for one reason – to escape her mother. Two years after enlisting, she’s found a home of sorts at Camp Lejeune. She has a desk job, colleagues, and friends. She’s even managed to find love. Her life back in Brooklyn seems almost far enough away. Finally she has begun to feel settled.Then came Desert Storm. Living the Dream opens with Mya headed to the Persian Gulf with her best friend Kev, her ex-best friend Jamie, and a plane full of Marines. Only a handful of them are women. The women arrive in Saudi Arabia to find themselves surrounded by thousands of men, unfamiliar faces, and unsafe surroundings. Initially tensions are high among the women – most of whom didn’t get along in the States – until they are thrown together and forced to put their differences aside in order to work and live in a combat environment. When the unimaginable happens, Mya and the women of her unit discover they must band together to survive.Living the Dream provides a woman’s view of life in the military, and in particular, tells the story of one Jamaican-American woman as she tries to overcome personal and emotional challenges. It is a story of courage, commitment, love, and friendship under fire.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Living the Dream: A Military Coming of Age Story. To get started finding Living the Dream: A Military Coming of Age Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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