![]() ![]() It also is a telling tale of modern war: a story of how a naive middle-class kid from the suburbs is transformed by the pathos of war. In short, book chronicles the AH-1 at its point of maximum impact. Cleared hot." ""Snake Pilot" puts you in the seat of one of the most awesome weapons of the Vietnam War: the Huey Cobra gunship. 'We've established bonds that are stronger than blood, ' he wrote. Through the sweat, blood, and tears of far too many missions, he learned that war is about men and what it does to them. Low and slow, up close and personal, he saw war from the steamy cockpit of a Cobra gunship. ![]() ![]() Randy Zahn was just nineteen years old when he served as an AH-1 pilot in 1/9 Cav in 1970-71. I couldn't put it down." "'You're just a kid, ' the flight surgeon said. "Zahn has shared the ups, downs, and horrors of a year in the life of a nineteen-year-old Cobra gunship pilot with the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry in Vietnam. ![]()
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