Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $72,658
89%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 89%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: theghostsquadron

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • U.S. to honor members of squadron in 'secret war'

    05/14/2008 10:45:28 AM PDT · by Dawnsblood · 18 replies · 48+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | 5/12/08 | CHRIS VAUGHN
    Not many men in the military are eager to join a brand-new unit, where they don't know people, don't know what they'll be doing and don't have a proud unit lineage. But the Navy assured the men it would be good for their careers. So some men volunteered and a lot more were drafted to join Observation Squadron 67, so named because that was the year it was born. After a while the men took to calling themselves "the Ghost Squadron" because they felt forgotten, participants in a secret war that neither the U.S. nor the North Vietnamese wanted to...