HCS Recommended Reads
Book: “Fearless Leadership: High Performance Lessons from the Flight Deck” Author: Carey D. Lohrenz Recommended for: Anyone, Older cadets & Senior members may enjoy it more. What: An F-14 fighter pilot's top lessons for leading fearlessly - and bringing a team to peak performance As an aviation pioneer, Carey D....
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Recommended Read - The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived
Book: The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived Author: Admiral William H. McRaven Recommended for: Anyone What: Admiral McRaven's ringing tribute to the real, everyday heroes he's met over the years, from battlefields to hospitals to college campuses, who are doing their part to save the world. When...
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Recommended Read - It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
Book: It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership Author: Colin Powell Recommended for: Older Cadets and Senior members due to some language What: It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendary career of the four-star general and former Secretary of...
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Recommended Read - Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
Book: Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge Author: Tammie Jo Schults What: Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults’ remarkable life - from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender...
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Recommended Read - Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the worlds deadliest special operations force
Book: Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the worlds deadliest special operations force Note: This book does go into the battle and his funeral, some may be sensitive to parts of the book., However the battle was a very short piece of...
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Recommended Read - Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Book: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II What: Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms,...
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Recommended Read - Rocket Boys
Book: Rocket Boys an anagram for October Sky, which it is also known as. Book 1 Other: Coalwood Series, by Homer Hickman (Former NASA Engineer) What: The first memoir in a series of four, by Homer Hickam Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town,...
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Recommended Read - Sea Stories: My life in Special Operations
Book: Sea Stories: My life in Special Operations Other: Written and read by Admiral William H. McRaven who you may have seen in the popular “Make Your Bed” Commencement Speech videos around the internet. What: This is Admiral McRaven telling stories about his life as he remembers them from a...
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Recommended Read - Fly Girls
Watch the Fly Girls Video Trailer Here from Keith O'Brien on Vimeo. This is a great read. 1st Lt A. Clements and I listened to this book on our trips to Cali last year. In the 1920s and ’30s, people crashed in the air races all the time and even...
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