Rio River Rats

Kent McInnis is an Oklahoma-born pilot and author who served as an Air Force jet instructor pilot 1971-1973, during the last years of the Vietnam War. For the next 33 years he worked in the pharmaceutical industry. After retiring in 2008, Kent expanded his literary hobby into full time writing, with publications of novels Sierra Hotel, Clear and a Million, and Semper Fly, a trilogy about the life of an air force pilot during and after the Vietnam War. A fourth novel, Detail Man, about pharmaceuticals, launched in 2024. Now Kent is back to telling the tales of the most exciting time of his life, becoming an Air Force jet pilot. In his memoir, Tales of the Rio River Rats, Kent McInnis takes the reader through all the study, work, and antics needed to achieve the wished-for status of a military pilot. Included are the stories from more than fifty other students from the class named The Rio River Rats.Kent continues to write novels, speak to large and small groups, and travel over the globe, with his wife Cheryl always at his side.Find Kent at https: //roanweatherford.com/mbm-book-author/kent-mcinnis/ or on Facebook.