War & Coffee: Confessions of an American Blackhawk Pilot in Afghanistan Havill Joshua
War & Coffee: Confessions of an American Blackhawk Pilot in Afghanistan Havill Joshua War and Coffee is a first-person account of being deployed to Afghanistan as a helicopter pilot with the…
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War & Coffee: Confessions of an American Blackhawk Pilot in Afghanistan Havill Joshua
War and Coffee is a first-person account of being deployed to Afghanistan as a helicopter pilot with the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Division in 2009. In between the occasional mortar round and rocket-propelled grenades, Joshua Havill takes a direct look at the tactical and ideological substance of a conflict laced with as much debauchery as tragedy.With a Cold War perspective gleaned from nine years of US Navy Submarine Service, along with a civilian interlude, Havill reentered the military in 2002 to pursue his enthusiasm for aviation. Observed halfway through a decades-long war, this irreverent perspective is both comical and brutally honest.
Time away from the cockpit was spent living in a plywood B-hut and making This checkered military career culminated with the subject of this work, a year of flying UH-60 Blackhawks out of Bagram Air Base.