Synopses & Reviews
Spray and Pray is the extremely entertaining tales of a wiseass nobody enlisted PFC who thought he was a tourist living on a beautiful beach, only to be rudely volunteered under extreme duress into becoming a Huey door gunner by a lifer first sergeant. This book will show you what a gunner has to contend with on a daily basis—angry green tracers trying to kill you, .51-caliber antiaircraft guns trying to make a Swiss cheese sandwich out of your gunbird, and friends getting killed and wounded. Saddle up for an action-packed adventure in an enchanting land called Vietnam. Spray the enemy and pray to God they don't shoot back and hit your tail rotor or you. Being dead could ruin your whole day. See how a nobody PFC becomes a decorated sergeant and pulls himself up by his boot straps to become Top Gun. There are many outstanding Vietnam memoirs, but Spray and Pray stands head and shoulders above them all.
About the Author
John J. Gebhart quit college in 1964 to fulfill a childhood dream and joined the Marine Corps. He spent the years from September 1965 to September 1967 in Vietnam, much of it as a Huey door gunner. Gebhart graduated from St. Joseph College with a B.S. In Business
Administration and is the owner of a large employment service company. Gebhart was inducted into the "Enlisted Combat Aircrew Roll of Honor" on November 14, 2003, aboard USS Yorktown at PatriotPoint in Charleston, South Carolina.