TAPS RIP
Retired Captain, USAF
F-100 fighter pilot, Vietnam
Air Force HymnUS Air Force Hymn Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
Through the great spaces of the sky;
Be with them traversing the air
In darkening storms or sunshine fair
Thou who dost keep with tender might
The balanced birds in all their flight
Thou of the tempered winds be near
That, having thee, they know no fear
Control their minds with instinct fit
What time, adventuring, they quit
The firm security of land;
Grant steadfast eye and skilful hand
Aloft in solitudes of space,
Uphold them with Thy saving grace.
O God, protect the men who fly
Thru lonely ways beneath the sky.
How young solders got one of the most dangerous jobs in the Vietnam War: long range jungle recon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byyWvx8ROo4
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BRCC Presents: D-Day by Land, Sea, and Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myrzh_qMh_w
80 years have passed since that fateful Tuesday morning on June 6th 1944. The operation that began the liberation of France, Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front against an evil that had never been seen before was known as D-Day.
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