In My Pilot Sarajane Giere offers a rare glimpse into the life of a military wife. She tells the story of her fighter pilot husband, Bernie, who flew 214 combat missions in Vietnam and served twenty-five years in the Air National Guard’s world-class 106thRescue Wing. With explicit honesty, she recounts the terror of the Vietnam years. With searing love, she unfolds the lifelong sacrifices that affected her pilot’s life and death. In the telling she honors her family, including the military community she holds dear.