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Call Sign Kluso - The Story of an American Fighter Pilot in Mr. Reagan's Air Force (Hardcover)
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Call Sign Kluso - The Story of an American Fighter Pilot in Mr. Reagan's Air Force (Hardcover)
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Eagle pilot Rick “Kluso” Tollini’s life has embodied
childhood dreams and the reality of what the American experience
could produce. In his memoir, Call Sign Kluso, Rick puts the
fraught minutes above the Iraqi desert that made him an ace into
the context of a full life; exploring how he came to be flying a
F-15C in Desert Storm, and how that day became a pivotal moment in
his life. Rick’s first experience of flying was in a Piper PA-18
over 1960s’ California as a small boy, and his love of flying
through his teenage years was fostered by his pilot father,
eventually blossoming into a decision to join the Air Force as a
pilot in his late twenties. Having trained to fly jets he was
assigned to fly the F-15 Eagle with the “Dirty Dozen,” the 12th
Tactical Fighter Squadron, at Kadena AB, Japan before returning
Stateside to the 58th Tactical Fighter Squadron “The Gorillas.”
Throughout training Reagan’s fighter pilots expected to face was
the Soviet Union, but Rick’s first combat deployment was Desert
Storm. He recounts the planning, the preparation, and the missions,
the life of a fighter pilot in a combat zone and the reality of
combat. Rick’s aerial victory was one of 16 accumulated by the
Gorillas, the most by any squadron during Desert Storm. Returning
from the combat skies of Iraq, Rick continued a successful
fulfilling Air Force career until, struggling to make sense of his
life, he turned to Buddhism. His practice led him to leave the Air
Force, to find a new vocation, and to finally come to terms with
shooting down that MiG-25 Foxbat in the desert all those years
before. Most importantly, he came to a deeper understanding of the
importance of our shared humanity.
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