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Paladin Zero Six: A Desert Storm Memoir by a 101st Airborne Attack Helicopter Company Commander

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This book is an outstanding read for all future officers. You can't go 3 pages without finding some leadership principle in action. Not theory talk, but application through his experiences. He has some great stories to tell and covers what it's like in a modern day aviation unit.

As someone who loves to read military autobiographies and personal memoirs, It was a great pleasure to read one from someone I had the pleasure of serving with. J. Garcia has a great flair for making the reader share his discomfort and loss after his aircraft crashed on a training mission and how he coped with the loss and uses those emotions only a few months later to lead troops in to combat during Desert Storm.

The beginning of the book has him being a little to "gung-ho" for my taste, but later he shares how that mellows and begins to accept that serving your country in the profession of arms is not all glory but lots of hard work and dedication.

I highly recommend this book to company grade officers serving in our armed forces.