Obama's Way

Michael Lewis: Even af­ter his parachute opened, Tyler Stark sensed he was coming down too fast. The last thing he'd heard was the pilot saying, "Bailout! Bailout! Bail—" Before the third call was finished, there'd come the violent kick in the rear from the ejector seat, then a rush of cool air. They called it "opening shock" for a reason. He was disoriented. A minute earlier, when the plane had started to spin—it felt like a car hitting a patch of ice—his first thought had been that everything was going to be fine: My first mission, I had my first close call. He'd since changed his mind. He could see the red light of his jet's rocket fading away and also, falling more slowly, the pilot's…