Good morning. Welcome to SawGast, number 41. This production of SawGast is brought to you

courtesy of Jocko-Willing Productions and his expert technical staff, of which we are joined today by Sergeant Carrie Helton.

Carrie, welcome to the show.

And my name is John Stryker Meyer.

I'll be your host today and I'm really honored to get into, actually it's going to be a part two of a series with the most distinguished guest.

Because during the Secret War, 8 eight year secret war in Vietnam, we had ran top secret

missions across the fence, but you can't do top secret missions across the fence without

aircraft, helicopter pilots. missions across the fence without aircraft.

Helicopter pilots, and we've heard a lot about the American helicopter

pilots.

Today, part two, we're going to talk about the 219th Squadron of the South Vietnamese Air Force, excuse me.

And we're joined today by Steve who's on episode number number 40 and today we're doing 41 as a follow-up and for

part two of this Steve welcome back and he's joined by his son Kevin,

who's helping us out with an interpreter

as well as a historian for his father,

which is a long, rich history of service to his country.

And if you haven't listened to episode. of

service to his country and for the if you haven't listened to episode 40 of

saw cast number 40 we encourage you to go back to that first and then come back and pick up this episode.

And when we left off before, we're near your career after six years,

some of the highlights, some of the gut-wrenching stories that you had from then and before we go past

75 I like to go back there's a couple things that we talked about before we turn the microphones and the cameras on today.

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