Goodbye, My Darling; Hello, Vietnam!

by Lazares, M.d.

• ISBN13: 9781477261712
• ISBN10: 1477261710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-24
• Publisher: Authorhouse

Summary

This is story of a young kid who became a man while serving two tours as a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam. We follow him through flight school, where as a new pilot and husband, he is learning about being an adult, while also learning to shave. The author was shot down numerous times and wounded, and had more misadventures than the average pilot. It takes the readers from a less than idealic childhood, through flight school and into the cockpit of Huey gun ships, OH-13 scouts, and the Ch-47 Chinook. Over the jungles of Southeast Asia, the author earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and seventeen Air Medals. The author was threatened with Courts Martial on more than one occasion, and almost thrown out of the Army after one tour in Vietnam, but continued a career that led to becoming one of the first CW-5's in the military.