Kevin Warren

Excellent history

Revisado: 06-14-22

This is a great story of Stillwell’s experience in China. It might be a wee bit biased in his favor but it’s definitely an outstanding work and well narrated.

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Very interesting history

Revisado: 06-14-22

Very good review of the history of the ac130 gunship and the tactics employed during Viet Nam.

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I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Revisado: 06-14-22

Not sure about the reader’s pronunciation of brigade but the stories were good, some sad, and the narrator did an otherwise good job.

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Tired drivel

Revisado: 01-11-22

What a load of insufferable drivel. I Stopped before the end of the third chapter where the author posses the rhetorical question, after saying subliminal racism whatever that is exactly was behind the bombings in Asia, “Would we have undertaken our bombing policy if the enemy were white?” The answer is yes we would have. Does the author not remember how many Germans burned to death in multi thousand ship bombings raids in Europe? The difference is the Germans surrendered. Dehumanization of the enemy is something everyone does. The Vietnamese called the Americans apes. So what? It’s not the basic cause of policy, “subliminal” “unconscious” or otherwise.

The author asserts the reason North Korea won’t come to terms with the West is because we killed so many north Korean citizens. That’s it, apparently.

The author states that Kennedy was a victim of McCarthy and red baiting and implies that he was powerless to not act against North Viet Nam. I think he’s read too much Halberstam.

Book looked promising and I suspect there’s good technical content but I couldn’t stand the nonsensical assertions any longer.

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Outstanding

Revisado: 09-15-21

First the slow voice is tough but if you speed it up to 1.3x it’s perfect. I loved this book. Great SOG stories told by a great man. Makes my heart hurt for the indigs though.

Welcome home and thank you for telling your stories!

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Great life story

Revisado: 08-07-21

I downloaded this book because of my interest in Vietnam history. There was actually not all that much about Vietnam in it but rather an overall recounting of the author’s life, part of which includes his time in Vietnam. A good part of the content was about his life in the space satellite business, which I found interesting since I’m in that business as well. So for me the book covered multiple personal interests.

The story was well written and the narrator (author) has a good voice for it. However, and this is a big however, the audio needs to be edited to cut out corrections and re-reads. The narrator would mess up a sentence or get tongue tied and start over on a paragraph. This is extremely disruptive to the flow of the story. I understand it happening but it could have and should have been edited to cut out those corrections.

I also think I would like to meet the author’s wife. I love his references to her thoughts and ideas. She sounds like a no nonsense kind of person.

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Thoroughly entertained!

Revisado: 09-03-19

The book is a series of notable stories that sample various points in time along the author's career as an aircraft pilot. Being a fixed wing and aspiring rotary pilot I found the stories entertaining and the anecdotes useful and sometimes quite funny. This is one I will likely listen to again.

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One of my favorites

Revisado: 04-16-19

This story is not flashy. It's not overly heroic or gripping even. What it is, or what it feels like I should say, is very honest and real. This is definitely one of my favorite accounts of the war.

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Very interesting stories

Revisado: 04-16-19

This is a very well done book and is quite interesting. It paints a much broader and clearer picture of the actions of SOG than is given in most of the one-sided accounts. It's not all ra-ra nonsense but a balance of what they did right and what they did wrong and what it cost them. I would definitely recommend this audiobook.

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Very enjoyable listen

Revisado: 04-16-19

First, it was really good to hear the author serve as the narrator. I suppose this isn't always a good idea but I liked it and Mr. Ford did quite well.

The story itself is very interesting and well told. I don't recall having seen or read any stories by pilots specifically in and out of Hue, especially in '68, so it was good to have that bit of void filled.

I do have to wonder, is Mr. Ford really as straight-laced as he seems?

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