Vietnam Veteran

As promised, I want to make note of Jim's and my older brother, Mike Brown, who served our country for two different years of the Vietnam War. After graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1962, he attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he graduated in 1966 (the class featured in Rick Atkinson's phenomenal book The Long Gray Line).


His first tour included the Tet Offensive in 1968. He returned again a few years later as a Cobra helicopter pilot and was shot down by a Surface to Air Missile (SAM) in June, 1972. His story of surviving the crash appears at http://www.vhfcn.org/missle.html
You may have to cut and paste the address, depending on what browser you use, but it's there.


Col. Oliver North also featured Mike in a segment about Vietnam helicopter pilots on his Fox-TV series War Stories.


Mike resigned from the Army after his second tour and worked in the paper industry all over the world, including Thailand, Mexico, Venezuela and El Salvador. He now lives in Tacoma where he's active in the Vietnam Pilots Assoc. If you read his story and wish to comment, feel free to ask me for his email address.