Like David, I am a former combat pilot and aerospace engineer. As an engineer, my ability to write left a lot to be desired until I transitioned to another line of work. David changes tenses too often and his frequent use of past perfect tense is very distracting.

His description of missions flown in the O2A aircraft are not bad but need a lot more amplification. He fails to put his readers in the cockpit, in-country, or away from home. His description of the C-5 crash, where he was on the accident board, was fair but also fails to put his readers at the event. From halfway through this book, the author goes into a highly abbreviated discussion of military actions around the world from our past 70 years. I think he would be better served to avoid such discussion. We do not need a FAC or an engineer to pontificate about military actions - best to leave such commentary to historians.

Like David, I am a former combat pilot and aerospace engineer. As an engineer, my ability to write left a lot to be desired until I transitioned to another line of work. David changes tenses too often and his frequent use of past perfect tense is very distracting.

His description of missions flown in the O2A aircraft are not bad but need a lot more amplification. He fails to put his readers in the cockpit, in-country, or away from home. His description of the C-5 crash, where he was on the accident board, was fair but also fails to put his readers at the event. From halfway through this book, the author goes into a highly abbreviated discussion of military actions around the world from our past 70 years. I think he would be better served to avoid such discussion. We do not need a FAC or an engineer to pontificate about military actions - best to leave such commentary to historians.