Voices of Air America 33 years later, pilots can finally reflec...

"The longer I was with Air America, the less I knew what it was." So says, Charlie Weitz, a pilot for Air America in Southeast Asia from 1961 through 1973.

[Jim Schueckler]

While I was an Army helicopter pilot (not CIA) I had the please to meet some Air America pilots who had been Army pilots. We have some common friends named on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and remembered on the web site named named THE VIRTUAL WALL at http://www.VirtualWall.org

[anniekelleher]

Former Air America Pilot Alexey Braguine, who flew in Vietnam and Laos from 1967-1971 is the author of the red-hot espionage thriller Kingmaker. This novel is gathering excellent reviews and reflects Braguine's experience as a spook pilot and ground operative. Here are some highlights of a remarkable life.
About the Author
Alexey Braguine flew for a CIA secret airline in Laos, chased elephant poachers in Kenya, led horseback tours into the Chilean Andes. The explosive pages of his novels reveal not only a vivid imagination, but the experience gathered in a thriller life.

[TW_sugar_daddio]

This is the kind of books we want to read....
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi...

If we want fantasy book, it would be from a non-military BS fantasy!!

[TW_sugar_daddio]

No need to get pissy with me! I'm just the Messenger here!!

How to rule the world after Bush....
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/J...

>> They want to drag down the old, multilateral
>> order and replace it with a new, US one. What
>> they fail to understand is that the
>> "multilateral" system is in fact a projection
>> of US unilateralism, cleverly packaged to
>> grant other nations just enough slack to
>> prevent them from fighting it. Like their
>> opponents, the neo-cons fail to understand
>> how well [presidents Franklin D] Roosevelt
>> and [Harry S] Truman stitched up the
>> international order. They are seeking to
>> replace a hegemonic system that is enduring
>> and effective with one that is untested and
>> (because other nations must fight it)
>> unstable.

It is time to kick the useless and worthless FAGGOTS out of the White House!!

[Roger Soiset]

"Earthquake McGoon" was not the first American to die in Vietnam; there were several ahead of him the honor of first KIA and first MIA goes to Colonel Peter Dewey. He was in WWII's OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, and at the end of the war he was in Vietnam. The time was confusing, with still-armed Japanese soldiers trying to find a way home, British troops shooting Vietnamese rioters, and the French wanting their colony back. Dewey spoke French and possibly was mistaken for a Frenchman when he was killed and his body taken by the Viet Minh in October, 1945. His driver, who was wounded, survived the ambush and reported the incident.

Neither McGovern nor Dewey are on the Wall; the official casualties of the war did not start until 1959.

[Air America Brat]

As I remember it, the Air America motto was:

"Fly Air America and You'll Never Walk Again"

[Caroline Doran]

Mr. Weitz:
Are you the Charlie Weitz who took my cousin's body to Ireland in 68? His name was Factna McCarthy. He may have been known as Pat in the U.S.
Respectfully,