Truth or fiction? Either way, this is one hell of a story that shows practical experience is sometimes better than being school smart.
When a team of the military’s brightest technicians can’t restart a legendary UH-1 Huey helicopter, they openly mock the one man called in to help: an elderly veteran in a faded jacket. They see a relic from a bygone era, a man hopelessly out of touch with their world of digital diagnostics and complex schematics. His quiet talk of the machine having a “soul” is met with condescending laughter and outright dismissal. What begins as a simple technical failure becomes a powerful public reckoning, proving that the deepest knowledge isn’t always found on a screen, and that true legends command a respect that technology can never replace.
This short video is worth watching…
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I never tire of hearing these stories from the people who lived them. I just wish the narration had been done by a living, breathing human and not some damned computer program. History is too special to be told by a machine. JMHO, thanks for what you do–and what you did.
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Working at Invert, Det5 621st TCS across Laos at Nakhon Phanom was fine unless you, we, I knew what was going on and imagined how vile the pilots or FACs we had on the radios.
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Age and treachery ALWAYS over comes youth and enthusiasm.
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Whether literally true or not, this story provides a valuable reminder that history and those who lived it are important.
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We Viet Nam Vets are old now but actually set precedence on door-to-door search and destroy in Hue “the old city” long ago. History we made saved many lives from that point on, into the future. Yes, have been disrespected but that’s a different story for a different time. Always remember and never forget, God takes only the best. He saves the rest of us for other missions on his behalf. Our future was planned before our birth. God will not send us to it without bring us thru it.
SP 4 Ed Major Service in Viet Nam 1967 & again in 1968. Graves Registration.
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Yes, if one really flew hueys, youd know they have a soul.
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Don’t judge a book by its cover. Vietnam Veterans made due with less. So true.
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