Steve B. (fog) - reviewed on 2/8/2022 + 139 more book reviews

Interesting read about the career go Gary O'Neal. He is known as a true American warrior from his early days in Vietnam to stints in the Golden Knights Parachute team to tours of duty in Honduras and Nicaragua. I did however find some of the things mentioned I little hard to believe. Anyone has ever been in the military knows what comes after those incredible three words "There I was"...... Well some of the descriptions read like a "There I was" tale. He describes his love of skydiving and having started the sport at 13 years of age. He mentions that he has around 80,000 jumps to his career. Having spent almost 40 years in the service plus the 4 years of jumping prior to service would mean he would have had to jump about 5 times every day for that time period. Couple other hard to believe were his accounts of using one's mind to break glass, burst balloons and kill goats. He also described one fight where he decapitated an attacker using just his hands. He also describe an incident where he crawled through the roof hatch of a Chinook helicopter flying at 12,000 feet, crawled along the fuselage, slid down the cockpit glass, held on, shot the pilot a bird and then parachuted off the Chinook. He also mentions a few different movies he worked on as an actor or a special effects technician but doesn't show up in any credits as either . Still overall a pretty good book and Gary was an American Warrior and deserving of our thanks and respect.

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