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Punks War/Wing/Fight

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I actually met the author at the Naval Aviation Museum at a book signing with a few authors. He seemed okay but struck me as the typical F-14 RIO type, a little too full of himself. He wrote the first book when he was still on active duty, I think he was at the USNA as a CDR. Now he is retired.

As for Clancy's books, I agree that they have gotten far fetched, and a preachy too. The last one with Jack Jr. was good but they were way too lucky in catching terrorists. It ain't that easy.

My vote for cheesiest author photo is one of Tom Clancy's. He has a flight jacket, sunglasses, a Marine or Navy ballcap and is wearing a flight suit with sown in creases. I kid you not.
 
Schnugg

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What a waste of gas...

Does the public really think we wear shades and such like that? Ahhh so much Hollywood I suppose...
Now this guy Clancy...he just has a huge melon.

Oh yeah, I hate those typical whiny RIOs, too. A damn waste of good space I say...I'd rather have 200 pounds of gas...Aw crap we went and built a two seat Super Hornet...dammit...now we need more of them there RIOs (pronounced R Eye Ohhs)...

Cheers.

Hey if you can't poke fun at yourself, you're skin is way too thin for this job...

G :)
 

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phrogdriver

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I actually met Ward Carroll the other day. I'd seen him before, but didn't make the connection. He works for Bell-Boeing. Good guy, but I didn't ask about the shades.

Clancy...what a wannabe. Great writer, but sometimes strikes me as an ex-insurance salesman (which is what he is) playing Walter Mitty.
 
Greaper007

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I had to stop reading "Teeth of the Tiger" after about 75 pages. It was way too preachy. Seemed more like a Pat Buchanan worst case scenario book. Granted I didn't finish the book. But the whole first scene kill a child molestor was way too formulaic for me. Come on Tom, get some originality.
 
petescheu

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If you feel like reading about something that actually happened, pick up American Solider, by Gen Tommy Franks. Def time well spent.
 
Slammer2

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Punk said:
In the Company of Heroes - Micheal Durant
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Just finished that one and picked up another one called The Battle of Modadishu written by Matt Eversmann and Dan Schilling, two of the men that were there. Should be another good one.
 
Greaper007

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The absolute best World War II book (pacific theater) "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" by Eugene B. Sledge. It was a required reading for my WWII history class, and it blew my hair back. It was an autobiography of a Marine that saw pretty much the worst fighting of WWII's Pacific Theater. It was really good because it was pretty objective and straightforward. Apparently he wrote the book when he was like 50 from little scraps of paper of things he would write down and keep in his bible. Anyways, I was a history major so believe that I read a ****load of books on war, and this was the best.
 
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