The late Ed Denny was a retired architect. He lived in Denton, Texas.

Table of Contents

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Preface

¿1.¿Whiskey Shots, Playing Slots, Coin Toss

¿2.¿Getting Shot At: Just Take It

¿3.¿White-Knuckle Formation Flying

¿4.¿ Mental Degeneration into Looney Land

¿5.¿New Guy Extra Duties

¿6.¿Helicopters on the Moon, Nixon's Cambodia, First Day

¿7.¿More New Guy Extra Duties

¿8.¿The Guard Towers, Being Insane

¿9.¿Dead, First Day, First Minutes

10.¿Flight Hours Clerk

11.¿ACs Flew Left Seat: Hello, Americal Division

12.¿Shoot at a Hornet, You Die

13.¿New Platoon Leader Temporary

14.¿Kham Duc Briefing, Letters Home

15.¿AC Transition, Final Ride, Dennis Plumber

16.¿Sappers at Kham Duc

17.¿The Jeep and Larry Hood's First Day as AC

18.¿Death, Don't Come Knocking: Serna and Larraga

19.¿Leon Richards, the ­Snake-Eater, Was Gone Like Smoke

20.¿IP School

21.¿First Check Rides

22.¿Death Comes to the Hornets Again: Koch

23.¿R&R Was Coming Soon, Concussion Grenade

24.¿Flying Graves Registration

25.¿Attempted Murder: The Fragging

26.¿R&R Hawaii: Hot Sun Outside, Freezing Inside

27.¿Flares All Night

28.¿Cut Me, Cut Me, Go Ahead

29.¿Hood's Check Ride, Screaming Woman

30.¿Aviation Safety Officer School-Captain Salmond

31.¿Medals for All the Wrong Reasons

32.¿Gunship Body Count: Like a Deer Tied to the Fender

33.¿NVA Marching Down the Open Road

34.¿Good Vibrations, South Vietnamese Pilot

35.¿Out at Hawk Hill, After Midnight

36.¿Stealing Food Over the Holidays

37.¿The Khe Sanh Series: Quang Tri Rockets

38.¿CO Office, CW2 Denny

39.¿The Khe Sanh Series: Largest Armada

40.¿Watching the ­Fly-By from the Deck

41.¿Nurse in White Satin

42.¿The Khe Sanh Series: ­Machete-Man

43.¿Jet Airliner: Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, to Fort Lewis, Washington, USA

44.¿Jet Airliner: Denver Airport, I'll Be Home Tonight, Baby

45.¿My Wife, Our Apartment, Back in the World

Index