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Lt Col William M. Spike Jones
I was born at a very young age into a Navy family; yet after growing up hop-scotching the U.S from coast to coast. and attending high school in Italy; the self-described 130 lb. band geek with brac...view moreI was born at a very young age into a Navy family; yet after growing up hop-scotching the U.S from coast to coast. and attending high school in Italy; the self-described 130 lb. band geek with braces. inexplicably managed to snag a congressional appointment to the USAF Academy, despite the “shot in the dark” estimation of my uninformed high school guidance counselor and the challenges of corresponding with my Florida Congressman from overseas. Who knew Italy doesn’t have members in the U.S. Congress? Remember; this was before Al Gore invented the Internet and Hillary Clinton used it to hide 30,000 classified email.
To prove the Air Force hadn’t been hoodwinked, I surprised even myself by graduating. I then spent the following 25 years in the cockpit first; as a student pilot (That’s where they make you start-go figure), followed by several assignments as an instructor pilot, which eventually culminated in a squadron command. Most surprizingly,I was also an award-winning fighter pilot in the world’s undesputed, premiere air superiority fighter of our time – the F-15 Eagle. If you happen to dispute this claim; take it up with my publisher; they wouldn’t print it if it weren’t true. After serving in the Air Force for half its existence, I survived a massive, near-fatal stroke leaving me paralyzed on the left half of my body. I wrote this, my second book, with one hand from a wheel chair. This really happened; it’s not a shameless ploy for pity book sales. My first wife of almost 37 years and I live in Carrollton, Virginia.view less
Books by Lt Col William M. Spike Jones
Glimpses of God’S Grace: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Guy