Bruce Crandall was a soldier once ... and young. As a 32-year-old helicopter pilot, he flew through a gantlet of enemy fire, taking ammunition in and wounded Americans out of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War, Army records say.

Bruce Crandall was a soldier once ... and young. As a 32-year-old helicopter pilot, he flew through a gauntlet of enemy fire, taking ammunition in and wounded Americans out of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War, Army records say.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Air Force Space Command, which oversees military space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations, needs at least 20 new helicopters to replace its Vietnam-era UH-1 helicopters, a top general told reporters on Tuesday. Lt.

By Manny Gamallo, Tulsa World, Okla. Apr. 7--BRAGGS -- There was no mistaking the challenged and apprehensive look on the faces of 206 National Guard troops assembled at Camp Gruber for the start of air-assault school.

Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 1 February: Military Transport Aviation aircraft today dropped three BMD-3 airborne assault vehicles from a single aircraft for the first time in Russian military practice.