Recommended Reading for Young SNAs and Officers.

[bradler]

I have just completed the book Deep Survival; Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales and it gave some great advice on how to better prepare yourself in a life or death situation. This might not mean a lot to aviators but while reading Gonzales uses many refrences to military training in survival and recounts many of his own father's experiences as being a shot down pilot in World War II and surviving.

I was wondering if there are any other books out that expereinced aviators would recommend that have helped them become better pilots and officer's?

I have already started to read On Killing by Ret. Lt Col. Dave Grossman. Which I have heard is essential to an Officer's reading list.

 

[NavAir42]

In Love and War by Jim Stockdale
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison

 

[HAL Pilot]

Maxim, Playboy, Penthouse.......

Oh yeah - beer bottle labels.

 

[statesman]

Nimitz by E. B. Potter
On Seas of Glory by John Lehman (this book is horribly self serving but is a good overview of US Naval history)

 

[Dirty]

I was wondering if there are any other books... recommend that have helped them become better officer's?

.....have heard is essential to an Officer's reading list.

Huge Neee-eerrrd if you actually own this, but I have referenced this more than bathroom material during a busy Admin goatfest. It will save you more time down the road, and you wont have to be carrying around a folder with more green ink in it than black...

Plus it leaves you more time to read the good stuff.. Plumpers and Over-40

 

[nittany03]

Maxium . . .

That sound like something you'd find at the pharmacy counter as opposed to the magazine rack.

 

[HAL Pilot]

That sound like something you'd find at the pharmacy counter as opposed to the magazine rack.

Yeah, yeah.....

 

[CommodoreMid]

Isn't there a published reading list geared for junior officers, mid-grade, etc., that the Navy puts out each year?

 

[statesman]

http://www.navyreading.navy.mil/

 

[wannabeapilot05]

I have already started to read On Killing by Ret. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Which I have heard is essential to an Officer's reading list.

If you like On Killing I would also recommend On Combat which is also by Lt. Grossman. Here is a small excerpt called On Sheep, Sheepdogs, and Wolves, which I believe may have been posted on the forum previously, but is worth another look.

-BB

 

[bradler]

yes they do have a reading list... but i was looking for books from personal experience that others have read that helped them.

 

[Gatordev]

There's actually already a pretty lengthy book thread in progress, but for the life of me, I can't find it. Anyone?

 

[snake020]

Angles of Attack by Peter Hunt is a good one:

http://www.amazon.com/Angles-Attack-6-Intruder-Pilots/dp/0345451147

 

[Herc_Dude]

There's actually already a pretty lengthy book thread in progress, but for the life of me, I can't find it. Anyone?

Don't worry - leave the grunt work up to a Marine ...

http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14356&highlight=books

 

[NavAir42]

Isn't that what we have marines for?