On March 30, 1972, David C. Tisron was a gunner on an AC-130 gunship and, along with 14 other crew members, was shot down over Laos. They all bailed out....and they all survived. The crew members on a gunship the night before were not so fortunate which was something not lost on the minds of the men of Spectre 22.
We were engaged at the time and married in November of the same year. Dave hobbled down the aisle in a full-length cast which he would be in and out of for the next three years from the broken leg he received in the parachute landing through the jungle canopy. We later had two children, Dan and Jessica. Dave chose to leave this world on April 26, 1991. He's not forgotten.
Here's a recount of that fateful night forty years ago...
http://www.jollygreen.org/Stories/DavidPreston/loss_of_specter_22.htm
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