Gun Ship Commander Author:William Crawford Joe Brown, Colonel, US Army Aviation Corps. He's an Indian, a boxer, a West Pointer and a loner. He is tough, impetuous, brutally honest, sometimes violent and frankly engaging. He's often reminuscent of Patton. — Joe Brown is called back to his fifth tour of duty in Vietnam. He doesn't want to go. But the 509th Division needs a Commander, and... more » badly. It is a helicpoter gunship group - suffering from problems of morale, discipline, race, drugs and especially leadership.« less