As a Huey helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, Rich White has both proud ... Our seats are armored and we wear ballistic helmets, which can stop a small round. But I start crouching down ...

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

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 ...

Pieces of history also took to the air Saturday, as pilots showed off working Vietnam-era helicopters, as well as fighter planes and bombers from WWII. The thumping sound of helicopter propellers ...

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.

In December 1972, just a month before American forces left Vietnam, a Marine Corps pilot from Odessa ... when the last American helicopter departed from the U.S. embassy. And the Vietnam War ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most important (although not the most glamorous) assets of US Navy in the Vietnam War. It was the ...

CHEYENNE — Sixteen Wyoming Vietnam War-era veterans returned Friday evening to a welcome home rally after taking the Voyage of Valor, sponsored by Wish of a Lifetime from AARP. The veterans were ...