One by one, men in their 70s and 80s climbed up and entered the AH-64E Apache attack helicopter at Hunter ... who had the veterans sign a Vietnam-era Army helmet that he intends to add to his ...

Northwest Florida is proud of its tradition of military service, and Veterans Memorial Park in Pensacola honors those who ...

Coast Guard helicopter pilots train. It is therefore fitting that there is also a place set aside to honor those who have seen combat and remember the wars fought to protect and preserve American ...

That school was the Primary Helicopter Center at Fort Wolters, Texas. Of all the helicopter pilots who flew in Vietnam ... students and rapping them on the helmets with a stick.

OBPA spokesman Tommy Head is one of the Vietnam generation assuming leadership ... a steel hat that crushes my ears—there were no pilot’s helmets in those days so they gave me a doughboy ...

Tom "Huey" Huhn flew Huey helicopters in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 during the height of the Vietnam War. He shuttled men and supplies in and out of ...

Suffering two broken legs and heavy bleeding, Capers continued fighting and directed his team in the counterattack.

An intimate crowd of veterans, their families and community members gathered at Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and ...

Such devotion was costly, and of the 52 helicopter pilots in Barrett’s medevac unit, nearly half were killed or wounded during their tour in Vietnam. Barrett said it was a privilege to be in a ...

A helicopter carrying two pilots crashed during a Horizon Helicopters test flight on Friday afternoon. The company says one of the pilots died in the crash. The crash, which is being investigated ...