num_pages: 388
description: Marcia never flew high performance aircraft yet she learned to appreciate and maneuver through the irreverent technical and dangerous world of the Marine aviator--at and under her husband's wing. In WING WIFE: How to Be Married to a Fighter Pilot a memoir of the first few years of her marriage to a Marine jet jockey Marcia navigates the unfamiliar skies of officer's wives military expectations and the loss of loved ones. Over time she has to realize what she risks by loving a man who flies. WING WIFE brings the reader intimately into the bawdy comedic and tragic world of the Marine Corps aviator and the aviator's wife.
language: English
title: Wing Wife: How to Be Married to a Marine Fighter Pilot
publisher: Marcia Sargent