One time I was part of a meeting with Scott Dennison. It was late in Ronald Reagan’s second term as president and he was scheduled to be there. I remember sitting there and fumbling with my sleeve. I had lost the button and it was driving me crazy. All I wanted to do was align…
Once on the ground, I saw Jimmy Jensen among those who came out of the helicopter. He headed towards us at the comms shack. “Hey, Jimmy,” I said. “This must be the day you have room for us.” “You can keep dreaming, Doc,” Jimmy replied. “I’m just a passenger this time. This ship is going…
On the corner of the tarmac sat a beautiful, freshly painted Jet Falcon. It was purple, orange, and white. The name on the plane read “Federal Express.” I couldn’t help gazing at the name and odd colors painted on the fuselage. As I climbed out of my fuel truck, I noticed someone’s legs moving around…
We approached the Wall together, all of us strangers before that day and becoming fast friends. Carlos had introduced himself to them not long before we ran into each other. We split up one by one to search for the names of guys we had known. While we were there, I overheard a group of…
For all you enlisted Air Force guys that served in Vietnam. In January of 2020, a movie was released about Airman First Class (A1C) William Pittsenbarger. The movie is called “The Last Full Measure.” What makes this movie so interesting is, it is one of the very few stories of an enlisted USAF personnel who…
Thirteen Marines Lost, Over One Hundred Civilians Killed Beside Them by David O. Chung There is a special place in my heart for the US Marines. When I was in Vietnam, our unit was attached to the 1st Marine Air Wing, 12th Marine Air Group. I served beside many Marines during 1972-1973, helped pick up…
by David O. Chung Even though I try to stay away from the haze of rhetoric that swirls around from all the different media sources, sometimes it finds me. And it happened again with the Afghanistan withdrawal. With no shortage of armchair quarterbacks in the media and on social media, I think I heard it…