Pilot Dan Zimberoff has released a new novel, ‘The Last Top Gun: A Story Of The Last Generation Of Navy Fighter Jocks.”
The novel features US Navy pilot Eric “Spyder” Greene as he grapples with a post-9/11 world filled with unmanned aircraft and drones, politically-driven policies, women in combat, and doubt as to his role in any of it.
Spyder meets the future of naval aviation in the form of two young, aspiring aviators. The grizzled fighter pilot, raw and anything but politically correct, recounts his harrowing experiences when he and his squadronmates were part rock stars, part Olympic athletes in the air and all male.
“This book shares the story of my generation’s military,” explains Zimberoff. “We truly were a fraternity of airborne warriors; a generation that no longer exists as the military works diligently to form a ‘best of the best’ team of Top Guns representing every cross-section of society. I’m certainly not saying that diversity is a bad thing — far from it — but times have changed and the all-boys club I was once a part of, and every generation of military man before me, is now just a shadow of its former self. The Last Top Gun s is a true showcase of what being a navy carrier pilot used to be all about.”
Zimberoff notes that 50% of the profits from the sale of the book will be donated to charity organizations that support US active duty and veterans organizations.
‘The Last Top Gun: A Story Of The Last Generation Of Navy Fighter Jocks’ is available at Amazon.
For more information: thelasttopgun.com
Am I the only one who’s kind of happy that this generation of relatively homogeneous ‘gung ho’ type of military is dying out? It doesn’t seem like it’s something to lament… It’s evolution.
No, there are probably 2-3 others who feel the same way. Its a male bonding thing not a racial thing that in the military is a team builder. I have no problem with women and understand your comment on evolution, but being ‘gung ho’ is American. Its the way we are and one of the many things that has made and continues to make us great. Not everyone can fit in every group and that does not mean they are outcasts or inferior. I guess Clint Eastwood said it best when he said “A mans got to know his limitations”
I think it’s safe to say that you’re one of the current few but unfortunately growing number of people who have their heads screwed on backwards. That homogeneous gung ho military that you refer to has also been referred to as “the greatest generation” because of the enormous sacrifice it made in winning a world war so that people like you could have the freedom to express your disdain for them 70 years later all presumably in the name of preferring that they evolve into a heterogeneous (more than gender) and weakened overall military fighting force, yes weakened in terms of its internal order and discipline.
You and others of a similar disposition hold to a superceding concern for our military being imbued first and foremost with politically correct diversity rather than focusing on it being the best equipped, trained and prepared (disciplined and bonded and even chivalrous) to defend America from an ever increasing external threat.
Such social experimentation as you apparently prefer with our first line of defense will likely prove to have been a serious mistake but it fits perfectly with the upside down and backward societal values so prevalent in our nation today, values that apparently motivated a president of the United States, the Commander and Chief of our military, to strike a serious blow against the morale of our troops by exchanging hardened Islamo-Fascist terrorists that those troops had sacrificed dearly to capture and interrogate for a known military deserter on the battlefield who reportedly may have collaborated with the aforesaid enemy. That is to name but one of several strikes against their morale by this president which also includes placing women in front line combat units for the sake of politically correct diversity.
Do you really think that soft whiney “soldiers” will get the job done? How about when the lights and computers are knocked out and hand to hand combat regains relevence? Is Mr/Mrs. flower power gonna get real mean? I dont think so. It’s the testosterone soaked warrior that has always protected the civilizations of the world, and always will. Think about that while you’re tip-toeing through the tulips.
“I’m certainly not saying that diversity is a bad thing — far from it — but times have changed and the all-boys club I was once a part of, and every generation of military man before me, is now just a shadow of its former self.”
It sure seems like he’s saying diversity is a bad thing. Substitute “whites” for “boys” and he could have written the same story sixty years earlier. Self-absorbed heroes play a much smaller role in world affairs than they themselves believe.
Whites for boys??? What the hell are you talking about? First of all thats not what he said. Oh but he could have said it……blah blah blah. I’ll bet you see racism in chocolate and vinilla ice cream.