Military Officer - October 2006 - (Page 22) rapidfire Calling All Job Seekers In Review Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield By Max Hastings. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. $27.50. ISBN 1-40004441-3. media, and expedience in creating heroes of people who merely did their duty. The Cold War: A New History By John Lewis Gaddis. The Penguin Press, 2005. $27.95. ISBN 1-59420-062-9. I f you are one of the thousands of servicemembers who has left the military — or will be leaving in 12 to 18 months — grab your résumé and get ready for MOAA’s first fall career fair. It will be held Nov. 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center, Hall D. There is no cost for job seekers to attend, and servicemembers of all grades and their spouses are invited. Employers from a variety of business fields will be there. Employers who are interested in participating can e-mail careerfair@moaa.org to learn more. For more information about the career fair, including a list of participating employers, visit MOAA’s online Career Center at www.moaa.org/career and click on the Career Fairs link. While you’re there, check out the Tips from TOPS section for helpful career advice on topics ranging from résumé pointers to how to prepare for a job interview. TRICAREUPDATE EFFECTIVE OCT. 1, TRICARE For Life (TFL) or dualeligible beneficiaries will have to pay their entire medical bill if their provider has opted out of Medicare. Medicare’s opt-out providers, who are nonauthorized and nonparticipating, will not see Medicare patients and cannot submit claims to Medicare. Nonauthorized providers charge the beneficiary for the medical bill, including the portion TRICARE would have paid. Medicare-authorized participating providers accept the Medicare-allowable charge as payment and agree to file claims. A nonparticipating provider does not agree to accept the allowable charge as payment in full and may or may not file claims. To find out which provider you have, call (800) 633-4227 or visit www.medicare.gov/physician. 22 MILITARY OFFICER OCTOBER 2006 British military historian Max Hastings selects 15 warriors of the 19th and 20th centuries for this portrayal of what makes a wartime hero. He examines the human element of warfare rather than the trendy, modern study of technology and firepower, focusing instead on “leadership, courage, heroic folly, and the warrior ethic.” Hastings explores these heroes’ motivations to commit battlefield acts most people would avoid. He concludes that people become heroes by accident, unavoidable circumstance, good or bad luck, mere self-preservation, or calculated design. He selects examples from the Napoleonic wars, colonial wars, world wars I and II, the Vietnam War, and the Yom Kippur War and includes professionals, amateurs, incompetents, failures, and people who lived and died for the glory of and addiction to combat. He also discusses the spurious roles of politics, the Historian John Lewis Gaddis writes one of the best single-volume histories of the U.S.-USSR ideological and geopolitical “war” that lasted more than 50 years. Gaddis focuses on the people, events, blunders, and triumphs that saw democratic capitalism pitted in a global struggle against authoritarian communism. He provides insight into the brilliance of Dwight Eisenhower, the paranoia of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev, the naiveté of John F. Kennedy, the adaptability of Mao Tsetong, the victory of Ronald Reagan, and the capitulation of Mikhail Gorbachev. Gaddis tells of the Cold War’s origins and the importance of the Truman Doctrine, the Korean War, the Cuban missile crisis as well as the use of proxy nations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to further superpower political agendas. — William D. Bushnell IMAGES: ABOVE, STEVE BARRETT; LEFT, BRAD WILSON/GETTY IMAGES http://www.moaa.org/career http://www.medicare.gov/physician
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