Step 2 and the 50,000-Foot Fall – Sandy B.
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19th Southern Maryland Roundup - 1994
Sandy B. traces his path from a childhood steeped in Catholic guilt to a career as a Marine fighter pilot where he flew jets while battling alcoholic withdrawal. He describes the terrifying reality of flying high-performance aircraft while sweating and losing vision eventually resorting to a 'death grip' on his ejection seat to avoid crashing if he passed out. After a series of medical failures—including a psychiatrist who diagnosed his alcoholism as a 'childhood fear of flying'—Sandy B. hit a bottom involving seizures and a stay in a naval hospital's nut ward. He maps out his transition from a man who stayed sober out of fear of his massive infantry-marine sponsor to someone who finds peace by shifting from a self-centered life to a Higher Power-centered one using aviation metaphors to explain the necessity of surrender.
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