This was an interview with Victor 'Vic' Smith, a Vietnam veteran who served with the RAAF No. 9 Squadron as a huey door gunner. Despite being a dangerous job, vets who served as door gunners have been ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- Two female Soldiers with Task Force 38, 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, exemplified the "we can do it" motto. Spc. Crisma Albarran and Spc. Jessica Sprung, stationed ...

Toward the end of his time in Vietnam, Ron Vlach’s helicopter was shot down. The aircraft landed, upside down, in the jungle overgrowth. Everyone got out of the helicopter, except for Vlach who was ...

COPPERAS COVE – Retired U.S. Army Master Sgt. Jim Von Ruedgisch grew up doing chores every day after school and on weekends at his family’s 40-acre farm in southeast Missouri. As high school ...

U.S. Marines aboard UH-1Y Venom helicopters assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1), conduct ...