Flying the Line, An Air Force Pilot's Journey: Pilot Training, Vietnam, SAC, 1970-1979

Embarking on an insightful journey through the 1970s American military, Jay Lacklen takes you on a rich and often enthralling adventure from pilot training to his surreal, nightmarish B-52 bomb run during the Vietnam War.

Bringing a fresh perspective to the era, Lacklen shows how the 1960s military draft diverted him from a prospective journalism career into an Air Force cockpit to avoid the rice patties of South Vietnam as an army rifleman. He speaks to the reader as a writer trying to beco...