hlg6016
A/C Wings Here
Well spank me silly, I read the book years ago and was under the impression he was a member of the platoon.
I stand corrected sir.
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What are you reading?
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I stand corrected sir.
I thought so too!
PepperPerry
Current Teacher, Aspiring SWO
For pleasure:
Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen by Joseph Layden and Noel Monk
For learnin':
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - Walter Borneman
Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen by Joseph Layden and Noel Monk
For learnin':
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - Walter Borneman
PepperPerry
Current Teacher, Aspiring SWO
Seems like some light reading….jeeez. 😉🤦🏻♂️
Skunk Works by Ben Rich -- a memoir of Lockheed's special projects division. A bit short on technical details that I like (and that are available elsewhere) but a nice overview.
It's been slightly slow-going for me as the dreaded age-related macular degeneration has hit my right eye pretty hard the last year or two. Grrr...
It's been slightly slow-going for me as the dreaded age-related macular degeneration has hit my right eye pretty hard the last year or two. Grrr...
Got it— It’s hard for me to skip an opportunity to bring up Elmo Zumwalt. 🙃
(And anything sports related.)
How did the book contrast these figures, or is it just biography/service records?
Sounds interesting.
Might exist in an audio book?
LM has a *great* podcast called “inside skunkworks”— I highly recommend it… they’ve stopped producing new episodes, but that maybe changing soon… 🤞
I saw this on a bookstore shelf a while back and said "new Hornfischer book? Oh yes." But then I looked at it a little closer and said "the last Hornfischer book? Oh no."
I think his writing style was better suited to the narrower focus of his WWII books, but this was still quite interesting and I'm willing to cut him a little slack on account of having died in the middle of writing it.
This is an awesome book . . .
Just finished this. Very insightful, if not cynical story of America's Spies from Wild Bill Donovan to present day. The agencies reliance on thinking money and our collective "awesomeness" as a country would be enough to change the world is both sad, and criminal. Fantastic read that will change the way you look at the CIA and the presidential administrations that supported the agency and their actions.
