#Yanks in the outbank series#

And if you are born Here…you listen very young for the sound of grief blowing up from the sea, for the grotesque and terrible wave with its fringe-face, man-fringe, man-spray for the lone ship laying its bones on the beach, the torn side, the loose entrails (in with the surf, out with the surf….).”

The first inch or so of pedal travel yanks much harder on the throttle. “There comes Here differently, not on a wind of joy, but on a blast of grief. Research the 2009 Subaru Outback at and find specs, pricing, MPG.

“Me-Me always thought it must be plain to everyone that there were two worlds, Here and There,” Frost wrote. Dave Ives 3. She evokes not only the landscape, but also its effect on the seafaring men and the women who watched for them from the widow’s walks of their island homes. Yanks in the Outback: A story of Woomera, South Australia, The Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (JDFN) and the First Gulf War. My response to Frost’s novel, published in 1942, came from my mind’s transplantation of my own childhood visits to the Outer Banks where my imagination had an ocean’s breadth to roam. Dave Ives (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. A ferry may have taken me to Nantucket, but my truest visit to that island was in the pages of This Side of Land. Yanks in the Outback : A Story of Woomera, South Australia, the Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (JDFN) and the First Gulf War. Yanks in the Outback: A story of Woomera, South Australia, The Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (JDFN) and the First Gulf War. My trips to his house on Nantucket, built in 1776 on the open moor on the site of the old settlement of Sherburne, together with his mother’s writing, were transformational.

#Yanks in the outbank series#

His mother was the novelist Elizabeth Hollister Frost. Today I had the pleasure of fishing with Josh Brian Gordy and former NY Yankees World Series pitcher Rudy May We had a tough start with conditions changed. And, he presents a powerful case challenging the official story about the role the JDFN played in the SCUD missile launch that hit the barrack housing US soldiers in Saudi Arabia on 26 February 1991.ĭave’s book is a historical snapshot of what life was like at the JDFN and Woomera in the early 1990s through the eyes of a young US Air Force lieutenant.As a student at the University of Virginia, I lived on a farm owned by a man from Nantucket Island. But, Dave’s story gives us a unique perspective - an inside, emotional and personal look at life at the JDFN before, during and just after the war. The fact that operators from the JDFN were detecting and reporting SCUD missile launches in the Middle East war zone is no secret. A private investigator (Sam Elliott) battles a criminal (Robert Culp) in the Australian outback for the possession of a priceless opal in this all-out action flick. With Sam Elliott, Rebecca Gilling, John Meillon, Robert Coleby.

The role of the JDFN during the First Gulf War is well documented in the public literature. The Blue Lightning: Directed by Lee Philips. Written in diary format, Dave takes us with him on his personal journey “Down Under” … how he deals with living in the remote outback, how he struggles at first with the Aussie accent, how he handles challenges as the sole military satellite systems engineer on site. These questions are answered in Dave Ives’ book, “Yanks in the Outback.” Dave’s story – although fiction – is based on his experience as a young US Air Force lieutenant stationed at the JDFN from February 1990 until May 1991. What role did the remote satellite tracking station near Woomera South Australia play during the First Gulf War? What was it like when Aussies and Yanks lived and worked together while the Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (JDFN) – now closed - was in operation?