Brian West joined the Marines after finishing college and served as an H-34 Helicopter pilot and co-pilot. His story of the end of a long nine hour day of flying when he was shot, put later stresses in his business career into perspective. He continues to be in touch with other combat helicopter crew through the "pop a smoke" website.
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Bill Bowden joined ROTC while a student at the University of Georgia. He served in the First Aviation Battalion as pilot of a "Huey" Helicopter in Vietnam for a year starting September, 1967. He has many stories about his varied missions including the "bloodhound" mission and how the Viet Cong figured out a map of his base camp down to the bunk he slept in.
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