Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond

Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn't your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky. Whichever way it happens, it wasn't your day.



Which is why, after twenty-four years and over 5,000 flight hours with four armed services, Majo...