Posted: June 3, 2014
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HUBBY'S REVIEW:
Here is a book about the life of Ray L Heureux, who always wanted to be a pilot. He describes the plan of action he chose to become one and how that decision lead him to the Marines. Once he graduated from college he needed to fulfill his comment to the Marines and he became a helicopter pilot. When he did he never thought that one day he would be working at Marine One, flying the President. He talks about how he worked up through the ranks and that when he made Captain he started to hear about the requirements to put in for the Marine one crew. After a short time in Korea he was picked up to join Marine One. He speaks of the training that he had to go through, not only flying but also book and on top of that White House protocol from secret service, state dep. They were held to a higher degree of standard and for an infraction could get sent off the unit but would also go against your record in a big way. After his four years he was then sent to Hawaii as a Major and within a short time he promoted to Lt.Col. Then 9-11 happened and he was part of the United States Pacific Command (PACOM) as the command and control systems chief, and was the Admirals Deputy executive assistant for a year. He was then selected to command the HMH-362 “Ugly Angels” squadrons, which was one of three CH-531, which provided combat helicopter support for infantry units in the Pacific. This was a much storied unit from Vietnam. He then becomes the commander of HMX-1, which is Marine one. You are selected for this command not something that you put in for. He then explains all that it entails being the commander of over 80 plus men. How you work hand in hand with White House and the Secret Service. He spoke of being President Bush (the second one) pilot and how things worked. A very interesting story on what goes on with some of the back ground that we don’t see. But I can also imagined a very stressful job in keeping everything running smoothly with no problems when there is a problem. Like a broken heater in one of the helicopters in the middle of winter and they need to bring the other helicopter before the President comes out and act like everything is okay, with cameras going off. Any way you get the point. A very interesting story about a man wanting to be a pilot and then flying the President of the United States. I got this book from net galley.
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