46 Driver a Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot's Vietnam Memoir - Paperback

"The kaleidoscopic tale of a Marine Corps CH-46 helicopter pilot and his comrades in Vietnam. This memoir is a tour through Marine Corps Officer's Candidate School, naval flight training and the quagmire of Vietnam. Reiner describes landing zones laced with enemy fire, catastropic inflight mechanical failures, exceptional flying and tragic blunders. It's about life on the drab, hooch-lined bases of Vietnam's coastal plain, KHE Sanh's "hill flights," R&Rs and the crude fleshpots of Da Nang. But mostly it's about flying and the missions that succeeded and those that did not"--Back cover.