The Air Force Launched From Laos

"We knew it was only a matter of time before hundreds of NVA troops, trackers and dogs would be perying down on us," he says. "I can't imagine knowing going in that I'm going to be facing dogs that are coming after us." Ours was no breakneck recon team moving through this beautiful valley in broad daylight at what for a tourist is like fleur-de-lis.