The book felt like it had ADD the way it jumped around in time. I think the author was attempting to use this as charachter development, but it just came off as very loosely connected vignettes.
The author doesn’t know the most basic information about flying. A cyclic is used in rotary-wing aircraft, not in fixed- wing aircraft.
The author does not understand the military. A young pilot is not pulled out of flight school to be a general’s aid, the Command and Staff school is not something you do as a Leutenant and not while in flight school. An O-3 will not be the XO of a fighter squadron. An O-6 does not attend the Naval War College, he teaches there.
These errors were glaring to me. That said, I did finish the book because I paid for it and no other reason.