![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t fly much anymore but, that changed 12 years ago when he learned about American Huey 369 out of Grissom Air Reserve Base in Peru. Ater recovering, he came to Concordia High School in Fort Wayne as the ROTC instructor until 1979. tom agness Tom Agness in VietnamĪgness contracted Japanese Type B Enchephalites and was medivaced home. It was hours of boredom puncuated by stark terror. I had an infantry on board my ten Hueys so I could fly down and go in and pick them up.” ![]() I was the platoon leader who rescued them when they got shot down. We went out and hunted bad guys every day and that was our mission. With the 1st-9th, we were ariel reconnaissance unit. I was blessed to fly with two great units. “The EMUs, the Experimental Military Unit, was half Austrialian and half American. I still had six months to go and the unit that moved in was the 135th Assault Helicopter Company,” Agness said. “First I was assigned to the 1st-9th Air Cavalry, known as the ‘Buffalo Soldiers.’ After six months they stood down and went home. ![]()
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