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Good. I have had the privilege of knowing a couple of slick drivers who flew there, and they are a breed apart. Great guys.
Nice to see them recognized. Don't know if you ever read "Chickenhawk". @Smokin Joe , but it is definitely worth a read if you haven't. Written by Robert Mason, who was a slick pilot in Vietnam. Every helo guy I know loves that book.
I had a roommate in college who was in ROTC and signed up for Armor in the mistaken belief he would be sent to Germany. He took a psychological test and came out between hostile and unstable and wound up driving helos in Viet Nam.
Guys, I'm linking this here. As good a book as has been written about Vietnam, period. 527 reviews, and the lowest is 4-stars.https://www.amazon.com/Chickenhawk-Robert-Mason/dp/0143035711A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger."Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch@Smokin Joe @Wingnut @rangerrebew @truth_seeker