I selected Other as there isn't a category for this kind of introduction, as unpleasant as it was:
I was in the USAF from '61 to '65 and during this time the assasination of Truillo occurred and the subsequent involvement of the US Armed Forces in the unrest afterwards involved our aircraft from the USAF base in New Jersey where I was stationed. We were on defense alert for possible full scale invasion. During the fighting between Dominican rebels and the government we lost one of our C-135's and it's crew while the aircraft was landing in Santo Domingo. It was part of my job to remove the aircraft's tail number from inventory. I was to do that a lot more a little later when we started losing our C-130's and crew (including friends of mine) in Vietnam.
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