Jet girl : my life in war, peace, and the cockpit of the world's deadliest aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
2019
Daisy Sound Recording
Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviator candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Operator. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and she was the first woman to drop bombs on ISIS. "Jet girl" tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks, and yet is in many respects still a fraternity. Johnson offers an insider's view on the fascinating, thrilling, dangerous and, at times, glamorous world of being a naval aviator. This is a coming-of age story about a young college-aged girl who draws strength from a tight knit group of friends, called the Jet girls, and struggles with all the ordinary problems of life: love, work, catty housewives, father figures, make-up, wardrobe, not to mention being put into harm's way daily with terrorist groups such as ISIS and world powers such as Russia and Iran. 2019
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780221049514
- 0221049517
Edition: Daisy edition.
Description:
- 1 DAISY disc (10 hr., 12 min.) : sound ; 12 cm
- digital DAISY
Notes:
- Unabridged.
- Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials.
- Read by the author.
- Audio and text.
- DAISY reproduction. [New York, NY] : Macmillan Audio, 2019.
- Reproduced from: Prince Frederick, MD. : Recorded Books, 2019. 9781250225115
- DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
- System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software.
- Studio original.
Publisher or Distributor Number: DC100434
Control Number: 3250142
Publisher: Toronto : CNIB, 2019.Subjects:
- Bombardiers (Personnes) -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
- Bombardiers -- United States -- Biography.
- Daisy talking books.
- Femmes pilotes d'aéronef -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
- Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
- George H.W. Bush (Aircraft carrier)
- Hornet (Avion de chasse à réaction)
- Hornet (Jet fighter plane)
- Johnson, Caroline (Naval aviator)
- United States. Navy -- Women -- Biography.
- United States. Navy -- Women -- Social conditions.
- United States. Navy. Strike Fighter Squadron, 213rd -- Biography.
- Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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