That Others May Live: Inside The World's Most Daring Rescue Force
Brehm,Brehm , Jack & Pete Nelson,Brehm , Jack And Nelson , Pete,Brehm , Sgt Jack & Nelson , Peter,Brehm/Nelson,Brehm, Sgt Jack
Language: English
Published by Ebury Press, 2000
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- Title
- That Others May Live: Inside The World's Most Daring Rescue Force
- Author
- Brehm,Brehm , Jack & Pete Nelson,Brehm , Jack And Nelson , Pete,Brehm , Sgt Jack & Nelson , Peter,Brehm/Nelson,Brehm, Sgt Jack
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Includes dust jacket.
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 009187467X
- ISBN 13
- 9780091874674
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Review
Most of That Others May Live (the title is a PJ motto) is told in the third person--an odd choice for a book that labels itself "autobiography" on the jacket. But it works well as Brehm describes everything from PJ training school (about 90 percent of enrollees quit) to family life (divorce rates are very high, even though Brehm is blessed with a supportive wife and five kids). The best parts of the book focus on daring PJ missions and include vivid accounts of, for instance, what free fall is like after jumping from a plane at 26,000 feet ("It's nothing like holding your arm out the window of a car moving at 125 mph. It's more like lying on a pillow of air, so restful you could almost fall asleep"). Brehm also reveals the startling low pay PJs receive: after a few promotions and a dozen years experience, he writes, they make "about what a high school graduate temping in an office can earn if she's really good at alphabetizing." Yet the job has plenty of other rewards for a certain type of person: "The stereotypical pararescueman gets a testosterone high from being physically fit, and an endorphin high from exercising, and then he gets an adrenaline high from parachuting out of an airplane to a victim in need of medical assistance, and then he gets a spiritual, godlike feeling of omnipotence from saving somebody's life, and then he goes to a bar after the mission and has a few shots of tequila to celebrate." Brehm assures readers that every PJ "will deviate" from this description, but the whole of his book reveals it to be a pretty good one-sentence sketch of PJ life. --John J. Miller
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