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Cleared Hot: Lessons Learned about Life, Love, and Leadership While Flying the Apache Gunship in Afghanistan and Why I Believe a Prepared Mind Can Help Minimize PTSD
One in three will experience a significant trauma in their life. For army Apache pilot Brian Slade, his first was in Afghanistan.
Offering a unique perspective on preparing one's mind for trauma, Cleared Hot is intense, instructive, humorous, and brutally honest. This book puts readers in the cockpit of the most lethal helicopter in the world as Slade learns on the job, combating a tenacious enemy against all odds in the most challenging environment imaginable.
In what General David Petraeus is calling "a heck of a ride," Slade navigates the ugliness of combat while working to preserve a difficult marriage to a wife suffering from mental illness. Witness the challenges that taught him universal lessons on resilience and coping, and how they equipped him to think fast under pressure and maneuver through a curtain of enemy fire that crippled his aircraft and wounded his copilot, ultimately earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Cleared Hot offers readers an exhilarating ride while giving them tools they can use to survive the traumas of their own lives. See what General Petraeus and others have to say in the editorial reviews section below.
Offering a unique perspective on preparing one's mind for trauma, Cleared Hot is intense, instructive, humorous, and brutally honest. This book puts readers in the cockpit of the most lethal helicopter in the world as Slade learns on the job, combating a tenacious enemy against all odds in the most challenging environment imaginable.
In what General David Petraeus is calling "a heck of a ride," Slade navigates the ugliness of combat while working to preserve a difficult marriage to a wife suffering from mental illness. Witness the challenges that taught him universal lessons on resilience and coping, and how they equipped him to think fast under pressure and maneuver through a curtain of enemy fire that crippled his aircraft and wounded his copilot, ultimately earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Cleared Hot offers readers an exhilarating ride while giving them tools they can use to survive the traumas of their own lives. See what General Petraeus and others have to say in the editorial reviews section below.
403 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 18, 2022
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October 29, 2022
Great story. Kudos to Lt. Col. Slade and Michael Hirsh for a well written, engaging story. I found it to be easy reading, although the technical parts about the Apache had my head spinning. I especially enjoyed the parts in which I could relate - unloading the aircraft from the C-17, the lack of a fair turnover plan to swap out the old team with the new (forcing the new guys to live in tents while the old team stayed in the nicer hooches). I have mixed feelings about the parts relating to Slade's marriage. While I can relate to it, his wife was such a mess that you knew where this was heading - Suggest shortening or deleting some of it. The reader knows that they would end up divorced.
The combat sections were very interesting and captivating. This book should be required reading for all helicopter pilot trainees. The final part, in which the author provides tips about flying and living are good to know, whether you are a pilot or not.
I served in the Air Force (and its components) for 38 years, retiring as a Mustang Lt. Colonel. I was in one helicopter accident, so I speak from experience. Well done. Good reading.
The combat sections were very interesting and captivating. This book should be required reading for all helicopter pilot trainees. The final part, in which the author provides tips about flying and living are good to know, whether you are a pilot or not.
I served in the Air Force (and its components) for 38 years, retiring as a Mustang Lt. Colonel. I was in one helicopter accident, so I speak from experience. Well done. Good reading.
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