“He was still sharp as a tack and couldn’t tell me simple things like classified tolerances 70 years later.”
About a year and a half ago, I wanted to read some of the old action reports from when I was in Vietnam. Most are available and declassified. The one I wanted to read (from 1969, to refresh some of the details in my memory) was unavailable, because it had not yet been declassified.
All hand written, and of various scan quality. Very interesting to scan through those of my time there.
Of the time when my pilot was hovering and tagged rear rotors with a stationary -46, causing us to crash from several feet, it just said we were in a ground collision. Well, yeah, we did collide with the ground.