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AIR WARRIORS: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MAKING OF A NAVY PILOT
Waller, Douglas
1998 50515 From Publishers Weekly After much negotiating with top Navy brass, Waller (The Commandos), the national security correspondent for Time magazine, was granted permission to perform an amazing journalistic feat. In the process of researching his book on the training of Navy pilots, Waller was allowed to take part in the program. He endured disorientation exercises in which he was deprived of oxygen, or spun in circles at nausea-inducing speeds. He was blindfolded and dunked, upside down, into a water tank. As reward for having passed those grueling tests, he was permitted to ride in the cockpit of most of the training flights recounted in this thoroughly documented work. Waller resists the easy temptation of presenting a book centered on "my adventure with the Navy"; instead, he relies on his eyewitness experience, plus interviews with more than 200 aviators, to craft an in-depth profile of the Navy's aviation training program and its participants. Readers expecting to follow a core of main characters from start to finish may at first find the format disorienting. Waller offers quick takes on individual students, both male and female, going through a particular phase of pressure-cooker training, then moves on. But once readers catch on, they won't want to put down this engrossing saga that will likely become an unofficial recruiting tool for naval aviation. Throughout, the would-be aviators are revealed as supremely talented, courageous and intelligent young people. And by showing how individual aviators have been unfairly tarred by the Tailhook scandal, Waller offers a powerful argument that repercussions from the infamous sex-capade have gone too far. The Navy will love this exemplary book; but so will the vast corps of military supporters and adventure-lovers. Photos. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Navy Wings of Gold do not come cheaply. In this fast-moving study of young men and women under stress, Time staff writer Waller takes us into the intricate and intense world of Navy flight training. From classrooms in Pensacola to the sweaty cockpits of training jets, from Florida skyways jammed with neophyte pilots to Southwestern desert training ranges, he follows the fortunes of a typical class of future Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard aviators. The author clearly belongs to the George Plimpton school of action-participant writing, enduring the nausea of air combat maneuvering and cramming the Navy's high-tech electronics before taking pen in hand. At bottom, though, this is really a "people" story based on scores of perceptive interviews with rookies and their patient instructors. Most telling is their incredible self-generated pressures to win assignment to fighter squadrons that fly the daunting F-14 Tomcats and F/A-18 Hornets. This book follows Waller's similar study of US "special operations" training, Commandos (LJ 1/94). Recommended for public libraries.?Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Edwards AFB, CA Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Simon & Schuster 0-684-81430-7 / 9780684814308
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