Close Calls

Close Calls and Other Neat Stories is a series of vignettes recalling some
of the tense situations I faced over a military career spanning twenty five
years, three wars and a revolution. Three of those years were as a "mud
marine," twenty two as a U.S. Air Force "fighter jock." Both jobs exposed
me to situations that could have just as easily gone badly as not. That I am
still here to write about them may be due more to my good fortune than
my skills as a ground or air warrior.

I have also written two other books, Kracek, a novel set in the Vietnam
War, and Sabre, a narrative poem with pictures that transports the reader
into the cockpit of a jet fighter aircraft

An old pilot once said: "There are old fighter pilots, and bold fighter pilots,
but there are no old, bold fighter pilots." Another, perhaps wiser aviator,
told me he'd rather be lucky than smart.

Guess, I'm just lucky.