‘What’s happening now is worse’: Midway skipper who pushed choppers off deck in fall of Saigon
Howard Altman
The Pentagon’s desperate plans to evacuate U.S. embassy personnel from Kabul as the Taliban sweep across Afghanistan are generating frequent comparisons to the fall of Saigon in 1975.
To Larry Chambers, however, that comparison is a little off.
“To be perfectly honest with you, what is happening now is worse than what happened in Vietnam,” Chambers said in an interview with Military Times, several days before the Taliban actually entered Kabul.
Chambers, now 92 and living in Sun City Center, Florida, has a unique perspective.
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