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Action/Thriller
Publisher: Create Space
ISBN-10: 1508620970
Type: Fiction
Pages: 314
Copyright: Aug 29, 2012
ISBN-13: 9781508620976
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
The startling wake-up call a young man receives when he chooses life over death by joining the Air Force. Blend in a touch of Catch 22, some Full Metal Jacket and the flavor of Biloxi Blues.
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Life is a serious game and all of us begin as amateurs.
Join a young man who finds Air Force life a blend of Catch-22, Full Metal Jacket, with a touch of Biloxi Blues. When he finds the civilian value system no longer valid, the military forces a substitute system upon him which provides security, IF the rules are followed. The stark reality of the military environment and its philosophy provides a unique wake-up call for all who enter. In Processing and Basic Training provide his first glimpses of what lay ahead.
Join a young man who finds Air Force life a blend of Catch-22, Full Metal Jacket, with a touch of Biloxi Blues. With a civilian value system no longer valid the military forces a substitute system upon him which provides security, if the rules are followed. The stark reality of the military environment and its philosophy provides a unique wake-up call for all who enter. In Processing and Basic Training provide his first glimpses of what lay ahead.
Journey with him across the bayous of Louisiana to the jungles of Southeast Asia, by way of Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand. As he learns the rules of life, he also learns which rules can be bent. Humor and the military are often woven from the same cloth, but with different needles. Join him in adventures as bold as life itself. Learn as he does about; aircraft, weapons, photography, girls and last but not least a personal confrontation with death.
Excerpt
Noise and vibrations were living things, which pounded him mercilessly. The raw sharp smell of ozone and oil was suffocating, the gray specter of claustrophobia crept ever nearer as Guy stared futilely down the dimly lit crawl-way. Fear's dreaded breath overpowered all rational thought. Guy tasted bitter metallic dread as he clutched the vibrating aluminum strut of the wing. He wondered, how did I ever get myself into a place like this? He had never even conceived the possibility of being in the wing of an aircraft with the engines running.
The Rule Book is a quest that begins at home and draws a young man away from domestic violence and into a global adventure. It is a search for understanding and an effort to avoid the cold heartless animal named loneliness. Here is a riveting tale not of worry, but of adventure, humor, rules, and philosophy.
Travel with Guy through Air Force training where his real world education begins, and he discovers why there are so many rules. He finds rules changing as the players change and learns life is a game everyone is playing. Some win and some lose, but everyone is playing.
Crouch with him in the belly of a plane as it attempts to make an emergency landing on Pago Pago. On a narrow runway stretching into the sea, in a thunderstorm at night, on three engines. Knowing death is also a passenger.
Experience the danger of an awards ceremony and discover what it is like to be a seal in the Air Force.
If you enjoy a fast moving poignant story laced with humor, adventure, young women, philosophy, learning, and death; you are in for a good ride with The Rule Book.
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