Goodreads asked Dan Martin:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Dan Martin The moment when I was at 35,000 feet up, flying over Greenland, playing frisbee in the empty cargo bay of our KC-10, and drinking a beer. I had this out-of-body experience where I just thought, 'I should write about this'. It took a long time to get from then until now, but when I realized that no one else had really written about the absurd experience that a lot of people have in the military, and I knew I had to share my stories.

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