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03002aim a22004455a 4500 001 2EB54DF0154D11EDB0B9073D48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220806010038 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 211207s2021 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 1666169919 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781666169911 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT14586091 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 956.70442 $b 23 100 1 $a Wyndham, Buck. 245 10 $a Hogs in the sand : $b a Gulf War A-10 pilot's combat journal $h [electronic resource] / $c Buck Wyndham. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Tantor Media, Inc., $c 2021. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 46 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 $a Read by Jim Seybert. 520 $a "I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, while the rest of the tank burns in an explosion of white-hot, burning phosphorescence. But the cold, morbid reality of it does not exist from where I sit and watch it happen. There's no dramatic chord. No deafening explosion. No screams suddenly stifled. The soundtrack of a pilot's war is mostly silent." The mighty, iconic A-10 Warthog was first thrust into battle in Operation Desert Storm. The men who took it through walls of flak and surface-to-air missiles to help defeat the world's fourth-largest army were as untested as their airplanes, so they relied on personal determination and the amazing A-10 to accomplish their missions, despite the odds. Hogs in the Sand is the epic and deeply-personal year-long journey of one of those pilots as he fights an increasingly terrifying war, all the while attempting to win over a woman and keep control of his internal demons. For anyone who has admired the Warthog, seen it in action, or called upon it to be their salvation, this story will fulfill a desire to virtually strap into the cockpit, while gaining unprecedented understanding of the mind of a modern combat pilot. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Wyndham, Buck. 610 10 $a United States. $b Air Force $v Biography. 650 0 $a Persian Gulf War, 1991. 650 0 $a Air pilots $v Biography. 650 0 $a Air pilots, Military $v Biography. 650 0 $a Combat $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Veterans $v Biography. 700 1 $a Seybert, Jim. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14586091?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9781666169911_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20220806012051.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2EB54DF0154D11EDB0B9073D48ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search