Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier (Tom Clancy's Military Reference)

I admit that part of the reason why I have some familiarity with naval aircraft carriers is because of the following; when I was still in the navy from part of 2003 and 2004 I was stationed at an aviation squadron in North Island California that did at sea deployments with the USS Nimitz, I unexpectedly met my amazing husband when I still stationed on a smaller ship (the USS O’Brien) in Yokosuka Japan around August 2002 when he (my husband) was stationed on the aircraft carrier the USS Kitty Hawk and I was personally stationed on an aircraft carrier the USS Eisenhower based out of Norfolk Virginia from part of 2008 until part of 2009. Still, this Carrier kindlebook by Tom Clancy interested me and has a multitude of various details that include; Average number of men and women employed/performing some type of legal work on an aircraft carrier can include at least six thousand people, details on one of the U.S. Navy’s earliest aircraft carriers the USS Langley, an interview with an Admiral who served part of his military time on the aircraft carrier the USS Oriskany (CVA-34), naval aviators in the post-Tailhook era, squadron life, a picture of a Tomcat F-14 pilot stationed on the USS George Washington (CVB-73), a picture of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), reference to Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara in connection with the USS Enterprise and two aircraft carrier ships that were built after the USS Enterprise (USS America CV-66 and USS John F Kennedy CV-67), the Nimitz Class Supercarriers (CVN-68), Newport News Virginia Shipbuilding; Home of the Supercarriers and more.

Just as advertised.

Reading this from the prospective of a 21 year Air Force vet, I found it to be very enlighting and informative. Overall a very good read.

Excelent book! From page one to the end, you will feel like you are with Tom Clancy aboard the ships! Even as this was written 20 years

Wanted a mass market edition and got a trade book instead.That's okay, but with a trade book I expected illustrations, especially photographs, to be larger so a person could get a fuller image. The glossary is seriously lame. Easily half the aircraft, naval and armament terms in the text which the average reader is unfamiliar with do not appear in the glossary. This required a manual word-search through the text to remind oneself of a technical meaning when one touched upon the subject again later in the book.On the upside, one acquired a good idea of the construction, workings, personnel, methods, complexity, scale and international political clout of an aircraft carrier including a story line of an exercise at sea with its operational effects far inland.In short, a hard to use book, but a good read.

One word: detailed. I needed information about the Nimitz class I couldn't find online. A ten minute scan starting with the table of contents and I was set. Clansy is king when it comes to this kind of material. It gave me the necessary knowledge and terminology necessary to ask the right questions of those individuals who rode carriers for a living.

i was wrong . there are 300 puzzles. sorry

Great book, but common knowledge ... Would have been nice to have color photos instead of newspaper quality

Tecnologico come tutte le opere di Clancy. Ma una volta letto le portaerei non hanno più segreti.

All you need to know about an Aircraft Carrier. I'm a writer and doing research on aircraft carriers. Thanks to Tom's contacts he has a great ability to get access where others can only dream of getting. He's also done one on submarine. You get a really detailed feel of what goes on and how things work. I couldn't get this new, but second hand is better than nothing.

Great product, service and price

Great Book,Thank You