PRIVATE PRESTON'S Wild Ride FROM OBSCURITY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

摘要

Robert Kenneth Preston was born in 1953 in Panama City, Florida, and as a high school student enrolled in the Junior Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. He competed in intercollegiate aviation events, earned a pri-vate pilot's license, and later studied aviation management at Gulf Coast Community College. His dream was to become a military "dustoff" pilot, evac-uating wounded soldiers in Vietnam.