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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As a former Rivet Joint flyer, I really enjoyed this book. Author takes the reader from initial training through deployment of an Air Force linguist. Author/Fritz learned two Afghan languages and deployed on AC-130 gunships during ~ 2009-2012. I thought that the stories he told were excellent; he tells of adventures in training and even a wild time in Omaha. Omaha? YGBSM. The last two hours or so, Fritz talks about the effect of his job and the impact on his mental health. However, other reviewers have stated that the book's war stories might not be his own. Sad, if true...akin to stolen valor for profit. That said, I took pleasure from this book and believe that I benefitted from it. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people's most intimate conversations. Over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz's fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a brilliant, intimate coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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