Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miles from Hanoi, another flyer tried to steer his parachute away from militiamen on the ground. Landing, he pulled out his pistol, but the North Vietnamese disarmed him, yelling, "Hands up! Hands up!" in English. The pilot, in Vietnamese, replied, "Toi xin hang [I surrender]." A third pilot only managed to smear his face with mud before he was captured. All told, the raids added 93 Americans to the list of missing and captured...
...anyone else, the airmen wanted to believe that peace was indeed at hand. "The letdown was just killing," said Captain James H.S. Train, a veteran of more than 200 missions who is now on his sixth combat tour. "We're just hanging on by our fingernails." Later another flyer warned: "Just don't pass out any more peace rumors...
...across the U.S. last week, dozens of Air Force officers performed one of the saddest duties in the military: serving as couriers for the casualty division at Randolph A.F.B., near San Antonio. It had been the worst week for the Air Force since Tet 1968. Though only one flyer was known to have been killed, 38 Air Force crewmen were reported missing. Randolph passed along the news of each casualty to the Air Force unit nearest the home town of the next of kin. The officer assigned to the duty called for a blue staff car and drove...
Commander Ronald Evans, 39, Apollo 17's third crew member, is also a Navy flyer. In fact, he and Cernan were studying together at the Navy's Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., in 1963 when Cernan learned that he had been accepted by NASA and Evans was told that he had been turned down (he made it three years later). "That night," Evans recalls, "Gene and I went out and got totally sloshed." Born in the Kansas wheat-belt town of St. Francis, where his father worked for a wheat-silage company, Evans was an Eagle Scout...
...Hartman had plotted to end the UFS. "I have learned of a whispering campaign against the UFS. Since I believe the UFS in one of the finest programs in this school. I will not allow it to be destroyed by any person or group for self-indulgent reasons," the flyer said...