Final Approach
A Flight Through Life
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Final Approach is written from the author's perspective of growing up in a very small Texas town within a loving and caring family of virtual poor means. The oldest of three children, his father worked as an automobile mechanic and his mother, a seamstress. No one in the family gave up hope for a better and brighter future, believing God to be in their corner of life. This book characterizes the trials, but importantly, the never ending goals to rise above. The author worked his way through college in the oil fields of Texas to become a highly successful Air Force pilot and senior officer, and later National Laboratory Associate Director and thereafter, business executive. He assisted his parents in every way possible, saw his brother graduate from Baylor University and his sister from business school. Life and success is in the eye of the beholder, hope in the heart and the inborn drive to succeed...and succeed this author did, and wishes to share his experiences, the history he witnessed in his varied professional careers. It is success story filled with experiences, few if any in the world, could ever imagine. Finally, it is a wrap not only on his life's adventure, but caps off his previous ten published works characterizing his Flight Through Life.....
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This is an autobiographical work describing a young boy growing up in the most humble surroundings where the entire family worked to maintain the most basic lifestyle. He went on to work his way during and after high school in the Texas oil fields in order to enroll in college. With a quest to fly, fly he did with the U.S. Air Force, in B-36 and B-52 bombers during the Cold War, eventually becoming a senior commander, rising to the grade of Major General and Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. Recruited out of the Air Force to accept an appointment as Associate Director, Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory and later becoming a business executive and on to managing the recovery of the degraded local and long-distance communications systems in Post-Cold War Russia onward, creating eleven published works, including this in depth autobiographical personal experience journey, which includes substantial factual historical events. Enjoy!
About the Author
Major General Chris Adams, U.S. Air Force (Ret), is the former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command; former Associate Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory; former Vice President, Government Systems, Andrew Corporation and Published Author. He spent 5 years working in Post-Cold War Russia, coordinating the recovery of their failed local and long-distance communication systems. He has published ten works, seven Cold War mystery novels, and three documentaries. Among his many distinguished military and civilian awards is the 2011 Daughters of the American Revolution National Medal of Honor.