Unlike No Other

A Memoir of the Unlikely, Yet Successful Career of a United States Marine Corps Aviator (Book One)

By: Robert Wemheuer

Narrated by: Kent Lutt

Book 1 is a series of stories of my company-grade years beginning with learning to be a Marine Corps officer, then naval aviator. My first squadron experiences include learning to fly the first Marine Corps CH-53, being deployed overseas to Vietnam for my first of three combat tours, which are all described in book 1.

The memoir stories contained in this book and a separate book 2 range in intensity from combat conditions during my three tours in the Vietnam War to unique escape-and-evasion-training experiences and to various leadership challenges and achievements, both in command positions as well as Marine Corps Headquarters' assignments, during his twenty-five-year career in the United States Marine

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5.0 out of 5 stars Marine Corps Commandant’s Prof

I’d love for this book to make the United States Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List because Wemheuer has written a primer on how to succeed as one moves from one command to another. Rather than platitudes, he uses stories to describe how he actually assessed the situation and made the appropriate changes. In addition, he takes readers inside Marine Corps helicopter combat operations from Vietnam to the 1970s and 1980s Cold War. As soon as I finished book one, I dove into book two. Kent Lutt’s narration brought this story to life. (Darren Sapp, Author of Fire on the Flight Deck and Aaron Bank and the Early Days of US Army Special Forces.) Note: I was provided an advanced listener copy.

Fast-paced and full of grit

An exciting and gritty memoir of Col. Wemheuer's time flying helicopters in the Vietnam War. I found his story gripping and extremely relatable (despite never having flown a helicopter, nor having served in the military). I highly recommend this for anyone interested in history, aviation, and inspirational stories.