Blameless: No Way Out - Couverture souple

Barber, F. Eugene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1508973768 ISBN 13 : 9781508973768

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

The young girl was in the wrong place at the wrong time. One of the men in the car robbed a convenience store and the car drove away trying to escape. She was arrested, convicted, and jailed for six years. She was blameless, released in three years and paroled. She ran away to Colorado and changed her name and started a new life. There is some romance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fred was born on a sharecrop farm in the Midwest at the start of the Great Depression and first attended a rural school with nine other students ranging from the first to the sixth grades. He trapped for furs, hunted, fished, worked on farms and ranches mending fences, branding cattle, and vaccinating calves until joining the Air Force at age seventeen just after graduating from high school. During the Korean War, he was a mechanic on B-29 bombers on Pusan Field, Republic of Korea as an emergency crew member, and later, a Crew Chief and Line Chief assigned to the 5th Field Maintenance, 9th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, Strategic Air Command, Travis AFB on SAC’s huge Atomic Bomb carrying B-36. After discharge just before Christmas of 1952, the former Staff Sergeant used his GI Bill and earned an AS in engineering, a BA, and an MBA over a twenty-three year time span. Mr. Barber has worked around the world; North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Polynesia, Russia and Russian Siberia, Finland, South Africa, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, and the Middle East; Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc. He and his wife lived for a time in the UK where he was part of the Status of Forces on a covert Spec Ops base in Yorkshire. Fred worked in Aerospace; DOD, DOE, FAA, and covert INTEL Agencies most of his adult life and still occasionally consults on spec ops projects. Some of Mr. Barber’s most recent contract/consultant tasks have been on the Airborne Laser Project (ABL) at the Birk Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB; in Minneapolis on large remotely controlled Navy guns; on a small covert base in the desolate Nevada Desert working with UAVs in the Special Projects Office supporting the DOD; in Washington on a carbon-fiber/aluminum composite aircraft; and lastly lecturing on ISO9001 and AS9001 Quality Systems in ten major US cities. Now, after working sixty-four years (until he was over 80), Mr. Barber is almost retired. He and his wife, Yvonne, of sixty-two years, reside in Arizona within view of a beautiful desert lake—Lake Havasu—and the ancient Colorado River. Fred is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) of Las Vegas and sits on the Education Committee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1508973768
• ISBN 13: 9781508973768
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg