The Tower Jockeys

"The Catch-22 for a new generation." Hawkeye Pierce "A tale more uproariously melancholy than M*A*S*H ." John Yossarian Part satire, part memoir, The Tower Jockeys is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Full of political and pop culture references from the early '70s, it tells the story of the last American military draftees and how they became part of the U.S. Army's most infamous and uproarious unit while guarding nuclear missiles in the Republic of South Korea. Come for the sardonic tower jockeys, stay for the sabotaged missile, the Bravo missions, the court martial, the tower ghost, the great raid, and the Korean businesswomen who loved them . . . or at least were fond of hitching a ride to America. Based on actual events, this narrative will take you back to a time when young men feared being drafted into the military and sent halfway around the world to die in a war they didn't necessarily agree with or even understand, and introduces you to a group who avoided that fate, but ended up mired in soul-wrenching tedium and military inanity. As one of the members of this company says, "It wasn't long before I realized my fellow tower jockeys were more the always scheming fuck-ups of McHale's Navy than the fighting men of Combat . Or, to use one of Pretty Boy's cinematic analogies, think Kelly's Heroes not The Green Berets ."