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In today's world, young adults face unprecedented distractions and instantly gratifying messaging that challenge anyone's ability to focus, decide and/or execute a game plan for launch. Students, parents, mentors, and mentees may find themselves disoriented. Eject! Eject! Eject! shares a father's near fatal F-16 accident while fighting disorientation at night reflecting upon and organizing the lessons learned he attributes to re-caging his inner gyro to make a life saving decision.
About the author
Lt Col Pete "Stinky" Smith is a retired U.S. Air Force pilot. His father had this inscribed on his graduation ring from the United States Air Force Academy: "Blue Side Up-Dad." During a night training mission over the Gulf of Mexico, he found himself unable to orient blue side up, ejecting with less than a second left to live. Immediately following his accident, he put pen to paper to ensure that his children had lessons learned to consider, should he not be the one to guide them in the future. This book comes thirteen years after the accident. Having almost completed launching all four children from the house of Mom and Dad, Smith wrote InCentivE$ for CREATEing Our Way: a checklist and acronym to reference for guidance and course correction, should they find themselves flying "too close to the sun."
