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020    $a 0593460359
020    $a 9780593460351
040    $d TxAuBib $d SILO
100 1  $a McGrath, Amy, $d 1975-
245 1  $a Honor bound : $b an American story of dreams and service / $c Amy McGrath, with Chris Peterson.
250    $a First large print edition.
264  1 $a New York :  $b Random House Large Print,  $c [2021]
300    $a 389 pages (large print) ; $c 24 cm.
500    $a Includes index.
520    $a "The inspiring story of the first female Marine to fly a combat mission in an F/A-18— and the transformative events that led to her bold decision to take on the most powerful man in the U.S. Senate. Amy McGrath grew up in Edgewood, Kentucky, a childhood shaped by love of country, baseball (the Cincinnati Reds), and, from the age of twelve, a fascination with fighter jets. Her devastation at learning that a federal law prohibited women from flying in combat fueled her determination to do just that— and then, to help change the laws to improve the lives of all Americans. McGrath writes of gaining an appointment in high school to the U.S. Naval Academy, making it through Marine Corps training, graduating from Annapolis, Maryland, becoming a Second Lieutenant, and raising her right hand to swear to defend the U.S. Constitution, honor bound. She vividly recounts her experiences flying in the Marines, and her combat deployments to Iraq (Kuwait) and Afghanistan, her work as an Air Combat Tactics instructor— and what it was like to finally fly that fighter jet: high-speed, intense, and physically demanding. Here is McGrath, training to do the most intense tactical flying there is (think the Navy's TOPGUN ); meeting the man who would become her husband; being promoted to major and then lieutenant colonel; marrying, having three children, a career and life in Washington and then moving her family back to Kentucky to begin a whole new chapter in politics; her roller-coaster congressional campaign (she lost by three percentage points); and making the tough decision to run again, in an even bigger, higher-stakes national campaign, against the five-term leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell. A moving, inspiring American story of courage, determination, and large dreams." -- $c Description provided by publisher.
541    $d 20211209.
600 1  $a McGrath, Amy, $d 1975-
610 1  $a United States $b Marine Corps $x Women $v Biography.
610 1  $a United States $b Marine Corps $x Officers $v Biography.
650    $a Women marines $v Biography.
650    $a Air pilots, Military $v Biography.
650    $a Fighter pilots $z United States $v Biography.
650    $a Women political candidates $z Kentucky $v Biography.
651    $a Edgewood (Kenton County, Ky.) $v Biography.
655  7 $a Autobiographies.
700    $a Peterson, Chris, $d 1961-, $e author.
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956    $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CECC7F82FC2711ECABE445E131ECA4DB

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