Jen Upshaw Swartz, editor of Military1 recently contacted me requesting writers with a military background who could write about a variety of topics. Here's a summary:
As a combat flyer, I had several tours of duty in combat zones. I wrote a book about my experiences in the Gulf War. "Stormjammers: The Extraordinary Story of EW in the Gulf War" was talked about on NPR and featured in the Journal of Electronic Defense.
"Stormjammers" is available in print, audio and digital. If you like military history or gritty biographies, hope you'll pick up a copy today!
Title: Hamfist Over The Trail
Author: George Nolly
Genre: Historical Fiction
Reviewer: Edward Cox
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0975436236
It's 1968. Hamilton Hancock is on the fast track to become a fighter pilot. He is slated to fly an F-100, F-105 or F-4 in Vietnam. Then, the "needs of the service" intervenes, and he is assigned to fly one of the smallest, slowest aircraft in the Air Force inventory, the O-2A. Hamilton becomes a Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Vietnam, and picks up the nickname "Hamfist". While Hamfist flies in air combat over the Ho Chi Minh Trail and battles an enemy gunner with a deadly record, on the ground he must also battle his inner fears and personal demons. Inspired by actual events. Contains strong language.
(Originally published in Military Times, 12/30/91
Sometimes we see the U.S. military on a global scale – like a monolith of might, not to be reckoned with. But if you stick around long enough on any give day at any given post or base, you never know who you might run into.
One day when I was working as a volunteer at the thrift shop at England AFB, La, a woman and her little girl came in to consign some items. As I priced her things, we got to talking.
Hope you'll stop by the new 'Meet Robert Stanek' website @ http://www.robert-stanek.com/. I’ve been writing stories for many years. Though I’ve always been a writer at heart, I never set out to be a writer. What I wanted to be, I didn’t know when I said goodbye to high school. What I wanted to do though, I knew that: I wanted to see the world—and so I did while serving my country in distant lands.
