Ignoring the political crap: I've had 2 bottles of Medoc and am comin' out fightin':
1. It seems to me in all my reading if you weren't in the weedosphere in Vietnam you weren't in the game. Witness the much higher %ages either KIA or in the Hanoi Hilton- both muds and rotary.
2. Thus the whole "First Ace" scrap back then overshadowed the real flying being done -again by muds et al. And this reflected the subsequent heirachy in the US Forces thru the 70s to the 90s. [And don't even get me on neocons vs the only grunt in the White House...]
3. I've still got Cuntingham's book somewhere buried under Yankee Station, Thud Ridge and the grande dame- Chickenhawk and if ever there was a pointless waste of a tree "Fox 2" is it. Give me "Jarhead" any day over this self-serving crap. He got what his arrogance finally deserved him. That is all -carry on.
4. Markers.
...Oh and I forgot to say:
Have you ever noticed how blokes who give themselves their nickname are invariable tossers. And no one ever gives themselves a crap one.
Last edited by Dunhovrin; 30th Nov 2005 at 10:04.