Second Lt. Marvin Wolf overcame obstacle after obstacle to ensure 150 enlisted troops got home from a combat tour in Vietnam on a C-141 aircraft.
Vietnam War
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Vietnam Veterans: Seven Steps to Find Out If You Qualify for Agent Orange Benefits
A new report finds VA failed to notify up to 87,000 Vietnam War veterans they may qualify for compensation for illnesses after they were exposed to Agent Orange. Are you one of them?
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87,000 Vietnam Veterans May Qualify for $844 Million in Benefits. How Come Nobody Told Them?
While there is widespread agreement that America should compensate its veterans for their sacrifice and service, there’s a growing concern about where all this money will come from. Already a record budget shortfall is threatening payments to millions of veterans as soon as October.
Posted inReflections
A Hollywood Bad Boy, a Near Brawl, and the Wild Blue Yonder
Of all the scenarios I’d imagined when I’d joined the Air Force as things heated up in Vietnam, this certainly wasn’t one of them.
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Reunited Friends, a Missing Medal, and a Wrong Righted More than 50 Years Later
We all spent many hours traveling by Huey and Chinook helicopters, but my DD214 showed that I had never been awarded the Air Medal.
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I Volunteered for This Mission. I Could Take Photographs That Might Outlive Me.
Drowning in fear and self-loathing, I reminded myself why I was here. Why I was in Vietnam. On this helicopter. Why I had volunteered for this mission.
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‘Come Hell or High Water’–Rangers Caught in Urgent Fight, Flight to Save One of Their Own
It was June 1970, more than a month into the U.S. campaign in Cambodia and the expansion of the war in Vietnam. And sure enough, there they were.
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I Learned That Loss Could Bridge the Divide That Separates Us
While pilots thought they were more important than the rest of us, their job—air superiority and ground attacks—was only possible with us.
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The Day the Marines Asked the Army for Help, the Sun Rose in the West, and Hell Iced Over
Normally, the U.S. Marine Corps is the most self-sufficient of the armed services. On this day, they needed our help.
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No One Makes It Through Underwater Demolition Team Training, They Said. They Were Wrong.
I was mostly interested in Navy underwater demolition. I didn’t know much about it, but I loved Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt and wanted to be a frogman.
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Mac Was My Hero. I Never Told Him. I’m Sure He Never Knew.
William (Mac) McKissick was a technical sergeant responsible for the security of the northern perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base north of Saigon, Vietnam.
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The Things We Borrowed–I Didn’t Set out to Be in Nonprofit Black Market Supply With Whiskey as Currency
Soldiers got what they needed in Vietnam, from cold Pepsis to American-made lumber to a three-quarter-ton truck, often trading with Jack Daniels.
