Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

Did not enjoy the book at all! Jumps back and forth between training and being on the ship--no flow at all. Johnson comes across as condescending and full of herself. I feel bad that she was treated poorly but she does not come across as a person in the book who is easy to get along with...There are so many incredible females who have served in actual combat that deserve a book much more than the nine months the author spent partying in Greece and other port calls. She had to eat Brownies with dirty hands at SERE school--the torture!

I saw the Today show clip which states Ms. Johnson was a fighter pilot. So I bought the book wanting to get a female perspective on such an endeavor (I was a pilot before women were assigned to fighter jets). She is NOT a pilot but was trained as a Weapons Officer. A challenging position but far removed from the actuality of actually flying a high-performance jet in combat. Co-authored with Hof Williams (who also co-authored the book Camp Valor) it was at times whiney and immature (the whole romance part of the story with the unnamed Marine was distracting), as it dealt with her perceived challenges of being a female in a very male environment. She's not a pilot and she can't write a book without a cowriter so I was less than impressed.

If you have time to get your masters degree during your JO tour, that is not an accomplishment, it is a failure. You aren’t putting in the requisite time to better your squadron. If you have time to get a masters, you are doing the bare minimum at work and making others pick up your slack.There are women in my squadron that work hard day in and day out. They are doing their job. They don’t cry out for this kind of attention.This is not the spokesperson that women in naval aviation need. Ask any of her squadron mates what they really think of her.

Not a real pilot so kind of misleading. Not sure i would put her in the same category as real pilots. There are plenty of bad ass female pilots who are treated exceptionally well in navy aviation because they’re actually good at what they do.

I wouldn’t recommend this book to my daughter to get inspired about naval aviation. Misleading and marketing to readers, especially civilians, to believe she was a female F-18 fighter pilot is wrong. She was a WSO. I am going to buy books for my daughter that were written by real badass female pilots.

Poorly written and misleading. WSO is not a naval aviator. There are actual, inspiring women that fly for the military. But they continue flying for the military rather than jettisoning to pursue a narcissistic career as an author (writing about herself) and speaker (talking about herself).

This book will do little to change the way women are treated in the military.SUMMARYA graduate of the United States Naval Academy goes on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Officer. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011 and she was the first woman to drop bombs on ISIS. This coming-of-age book aims to inspire and attract the next generation of men and women to the military.REVIEWI appreciate the story CAROLINE JOHNSON is trying to tell. She was definitely dealt a bad hand of cards, when she landed in the Blacklion squadron. The treatment that she received from the squadron team as well as her executive and commanding officer was abysmal. There is no doubt from her story that even more change is needed in the military regarding discrimination on the basis of sex.However, this will not be the book that effectuates that change. The writing left much to be desired and the book’s organization made me feel as if I was on a ship in a hurricane. The tone runs the gamut of condescending and elitist, to immature and whining.Johnson’s talk of her fingernail polish color, urinating on a jet and her decorating prowess aboard the USS George H.W. Bush may appeal to a young adult audience. But it will do little to change the way women are treated in the military, in fact just the opposite.Thanks to Netgalley for an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Embellishing herself as a pilot when in fact she is/was NOT. Riding in the back seat of an F-18 is not being a pilot, it is self-loading baggage. Writes about peers when in fact its really throwing them under the bus.A pilot myself, not much gets under our skin more than a back-seat hitch hiker claiming to be a pilot for their career.You can absolutely, no joke, find hundreds of better books out there about the military (specifically aviation).

C’est un livre qui,est intéressant, Dutch parle de sa carrière opérationnelle finalement assez courte au sein d’un escadron de la Navy. Cette femme, certainement très brillante, a centré son récit sur elle même , laissant peu de place à l’aviation. Un seul seul récit d’une mission au dessus de l’afganistan, incluant une bonne partie de ce chapitre sur comment faire pipi dans un cockpit.Pour le reste, elle passe beaucoup de temps sur sa frustration de ne jamais s’être vraiment intégrée dans son escadron, au point d’avoir été exclue des fêtes entre pilotes et au point de perde ses amies, elles aussi pilotes, qui pourtant auraient dues la soutenir. Son orgueil est palpable au sein du récit mais elle n’explique pas vraiment comment elle en est arrivée à cette solitude.Si vous voulez lire un récit d’aviateur, passez votre chemin.