Right Stuff....
I have seen the reaction of several people who served with Mason in Vietnam...one of them is a very credible source having shared the cockpit with Mason. He tells me a very different account of events than those presented in the book "Chickenhawk". His strong dislike of Mason is quite out of character and I have to assume his views are founded on a reaction to what the book claims as being "firsthand" and in reality is more like second or third hand. Mason tells a good story...but the book appears to be more a novel than a recounting of Mason's time in combat. (As I hear it from some of those pilots that were in his unit.) These comments were told and re-told at VHPA conventions over the years....where the actual truth lies....who knows.