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John Jones | Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 165 - Marines

5:24   |   Helicopter transport pilot John Jones recalls the mission into Laos where he inserted a Special Operations group and then had to immediately extract them. When he took off, the overloaded aircraft crashed and he spent a tense night in the bush awaiting his own extraction.

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