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  • The Other Vietnam War: A Helicopter Pilot's Life in Vietnam

  • By: Marc Cullison
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  • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)
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The Other Vietnam War: A Helicopter Pilot's Life in Vietnam

By: Marc Cullison
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Summary

Each of us who served in Vietnam was the guy next door, the average Joe, not a hero. The boy who might date your daughter or sister. The young man who might mow your yard. 

In Vietnam, we weren’t out to be heroes. We just did our jobs. For a helicopter pilot, each day was like all the others. You flew the mission and never stopped to think that it might be your last. You didn’t think about the bullet holes in the helicopter, the cracks in the tail boom, or any of it until night, lying in bed when you couldn’t think of anything else. 

The Other Vietnam War is the story of the introduction to a new country, a backward culture, the perils of a combat zone, and the effects on a young lieutenant fresh out of flight school. It does not labor the listener with white-knuckle adventures, as so many other fine books about the Vietnam War do. It instead focuses on the internal battle each soldier fought with himself to make sense of where he was, why he was there, and if he was good enough. 

The administrative duties of commissioned officers, while tame compared to the exploits of valiant pilots who wrote about them, caused a deep introspection into life and its value in an enigmatic place like Vietnam. Aside from the fear, excitement, deliverance, and denial that each pilot faced, the inner battle he fought with himself took its toll. Some of us thought we’d find glory. But many of us discovered there is no glory in war.

©2015 Marc Cullison (P)2018 Imzadi Publishing

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A slightly strange account

Whilst I largely enjoyed the book, being read by the author, also being a bonus, it showed a different kind of helicopter, flying account to me. A real life officer, that had a very different flying experience, and living experience, compared to that of the number of other accounts, written by warrant officers.

Some of the detail around his sexual interest, and to suit the romance, seems to go away from the topic somewhat. It was a different kind of account. I like the honesty, but was disappointed by the lack of “good old war stories”. Worth a listen though.

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Fascinating insight

I was unsure about this title when I purchased it, however it proved to be unfounded. This is not a gung-ho story of a pilot in Vietnam. It is diary of a young man thrown into war that details his daily life and the profound effect that it had on the rest of his life. It is made all the more interesting being read by the author.

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