PARARESCUE ‘IT’S A FINE MADNESS!’

About the Book

Since the earliest days of the earliest wars, there have been those Who would place themselves in harms way to save the lives of both comrades and total strangers. None of them, however, have been as dedicated to saving others pararescue jumpers. In the mid 1960s, airmen Joe Garvy and Lee Davis have entered training, along with many other recruits, to become pararescue jumpers. Being a PJ will mean constantly putting themselves into life-or-death situations in the jungles of Vietnam—and that’s assuming they can even make it through the training. This novel follows a group of young men as they make the journey into the career field of pararescue. During this all-consuming time, they discover how far they can push themselves as they complete eighteen months of training and become members of the pararescue brotherhood. They graduate from training dedicated to the simple creed: these things we do that others may live.

About the Author

Martin F. Caldwell was an air force pararescue specialist and a SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) instructor. He has logged over three hundred parachute jumps and flown over 1,500 hours. Colonel Caldwell retired in 2007 after forty-one years of military service. He and his wife Chaleece reside in Arizona.