Randolph Mains

Dear Mom I'm Alive--Letters Home from Blackwidow 25 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

For a year Randy Mains endured gross incompetence in the chain of command, top-secret excursions into neutral Laos, routine recovery missions that would turn suddenly, unexpectedly into life-threatening nightmares-more than one thousand combat hours flying into the perilous heart of a terrifying jungle inferno. In the wild, unruly fraternity of combat flyers he learned the meaning of courage and camaraderie...and experienced the gut-wrenching pain of personal loss. But most important, he survived to tell his own unforgettable story of the real war Mom never knew about.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Randolph Mains
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301737178
• Artikelnr.: 74350208

Autorenporträt

A native of Southern California, Randy Mains served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam from October 1968- to October 1969 where he flew 1042 combat hours and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, twenty-seven Air Medals and the Bronze Star Medal.

Randy has flown helicopters in the Australian Outback living and working on a 1369 square-mile cattle ranch herding cattle by helicopter and delivering meat by fixed-wing aircraft to Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory.

He has flown over the jungles of Papua New Guinea and was a senior flight instructor for Bell Helicopter International in Iran prior to the Islamic Revolution teaching Western pilots the art of flight instruction. Fleeing the country on the last commercial charter out of Iran in 1979 he unwittingly became a pioneer in helicopter air ambulance in America striving to prove to a doubting American public and a skeptical medical community that the helicopter could save lives in peacetime as it had over the battlefields of Korea and Vietnam.

In 1982, Mr. Mains was selected to receive the first annual Golden Hour Award, recognizing him for his contributions to furthering the helicopter air ambulance concept in America.

Following his deep passion to become a writer, while working full time as chief pilot for Life Flight, Mains attended San Diego State University full time, earning a degree in Journalism and a minor in English Creative Writing. Mains's first published article Life and Deathan EMS Pilot's Viewpoint won Rotor and Wing magazine an award for editorial excellence that he was told by the editor, David Jensen, was the first literary award the magazine had ever won.

In November 1984, Mains was asked to join the faculty of the American Society of Hospital Based Emergency Aeromedical Services to speak on a panel of EMS pilots, The Go No Go Symposium, during the annual HEMS convention held in New Orleans that year.

In December 1984 Mains was offered a job in the Sultanate of Oman as a uniformed Major in the Royal Oman Police Air Wing to set up a country-wide HEMS system. Mains lived and worked in Oman for thirteen years flying as a line pilot and as the head of their flight training department.
Desperate to get the word out that if something was not done to stop the terrible HEMS accident rate back in America to put an end to more flight crews losing their lives, shortly after leaving San Diego to take the job in Oma...