Word: pilots
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George A. Willmore is a helicopter pilot who has flown 400 assault operations in Viet Nam, has had his craft hit by gunfire 23 times, has twice been shot down and has collected the Bronze Star and eight oakleaf clusters for his Air Medal. Now Captain Willmore, 31, has become the first and only serviceman in the Vietnamese war to declare for public office in the U.S. Willmore is seeking the Democratic nomination for Congressman in Idaho's Second District, has already won the party's official endorsement. Last week he started home to prepare for the August...
...Force pilots over Hanoi drew small comfort from the stringent warning to avoid residential areas. Their orders specified that if any plane got shot down outside a city, a jet protective patrol would be put overhead and a helicopter brought in to rescue them within the hour. If, however, a pilot crashed his aircraft in an urban area, he was told that he could "speak saroya," Air Force jargon for goodbye. Going in on the fourth wave over Hanoi, the pilot of the downed F-105 Thunderchief did in fact speak saroya: hit by crippling fire, he bailed out. Later...
...June, a squadron commander noted that the ship had launched more strike missions than any other carrier in a comparable period. Yet, he added ruefully, "we just haven't done the job we could have." Said a diplomat in Saigon: "How would you feel if you" were a pilot in the best air force in the world and had to write home to your wife and tell her that you got two trucks last week?" The frustration ended with the Hanoi-Haiphong strikes. General Meyers said that his men "were on Cloud Nine." Pointed out one Air Force commander...
...solution may well be a kind of pilot trust-a form of revocable living trust that is funded at his death by his life insurance proceeds and corporate benefits. Many bankers recommend splitting such a trust into two parts-a "marital trust" and a family or "non-marital trust." The surviving spouse gets the income from both trusts, while being allowed to use the principal of the marital trust if necessary. When he or she dies, federal estate taxes apply only to the nonmarital trust and only to the amount that exceeds $60,000. The principal of the nonmarital trust...
Hopping purposefully in and out of the open cockpits is Anti-hero George Peppard, cast as Stachel, an upstart fly-boy whose killer instincts devastate both friend and foe before he can claim "the Blue Max," pilot slang for Germany's equivalent of the Medal of Honor.* In the novel by Jack D. Hunter, Stachel was a murderous, alcoholic blackmailer, but a trio of adapters has softened the edges of Peppard's role, following the unwritten Hollywood law that a hero-heel must be boyish, winning, and a terror abed. As a nod to custom, death...