Salute!
Thanks for the nice words, SAS. For those that have not seen our previous discorse, SAS almost got to pick up my A-37 and haul it back to Bien Ho after I "crash landed" the shot up thing at Saigon Intrernational Airport. The thing only weighed about 6,000 pounds empty and we had several brought home by Chinooks to fix the holes and fly again.
I always thot the rotorheads had bigger cojones than we did, and one great example was a MoH recipient here in the Panhandle named Mike Novosel, so look up his citation and read associated articles. He was a Dustoff down in 4 Corps, that SAS knew that area well. I covered many helo inserts both in-country and in Laos, then later in North Vietnam.
On my "tip of the spear", I personally know more POW's than anyone on pPrune unless they were in my class at USAFA. That's because '64 had more than any USAFA class, and then I knew guys that were not Zoomies, but spent some time from 1966 to 1973 at those neat vacation venues like Dogpatch, Plantation and the Hilton. My timing for three tours was excellent!
Oh well, those days are gone, but not the memories. And I never did anything other than my job and help grunts that were in trouble when they named me "Boy Wonder".
Gums sends...