Celebrities in Uniform

[Packo]

[Margaret Diann]

http://www.valdezlink.com/heros.htm

I've heard good things about Ross Perot
Maybe he will help those in military with 'gulf war syndrome' too?!

More added to last post -"Warnings!"

[Seascamp]

Ross Perot hired the late Retired SF Col. ?Bull? Simons to engineer and participate in the escape from Iran. Ross didn?t go into Iran with the escape crew though, just paid the bills and was in on the escape planning. Class act I?d say and he returned some employees to their grateful families.

Bull Simons is the same fellow who came up empty handed during the rescue attempt in North Vietnam. As I recall the saga, the POWs had been moved to a different compound just prior to the helicopter assault/ rescue attempt. I saw Bull Simons once and that was one scary looking SF Troop plus he had the attitude to go along with his stainless steel nads, yikes!!! Quite the piece of work for sure and I wouldn?t have wanted him dogging my trail for any reason, nope.

Ha, anyone can swim in the way North Pacific/Bering Sea, no big deal. But anything over a couple of minutes of exposure is fatal so it?s a short swim and even ?Dirty Harry? couldn?t do that for long and still be alive to tell the tale.

Scamp

[skeeter]

Scamp:

I could be wrong, and you could be wrong here.
But if memory serves me correctly, Ross Perot did go to Iran and entered the prison where the two EDS men was help in the rescue.

Also there was a TV series made from the book about the rescue. I asked my wife so is the reader of all books, and she says the book or TV series was called Wings of Eagles.

He and the CIA with their secret covert operations trying to get the POWs out.

But who cares.. He did spend a lot of money helping to better the POWs in Nam.

[PHO127]

The Movie Wings of Eagles with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara was based on the life of Frank Wead, An early pioneer of Naval Aviation.

[skeeter]

PHO:

I did some Google research and from what I can find, there was a best selling novel. title.. On Wings of Eagles. It was made into a TV mini-series, not a movie.

I know you are correct on the movie Wings of Eagles, with John Wayne. A very good movie .

[Seascamp]

Capt?n Skeeter, I read the book but passed on the mini series. The book is titled as you suggest and I recall that Perot hung out just across the border, maybe in Afghanistan, waiting for the rescue party to get out of Iran, but I wouldn?t swear to it. One thing I do recall is a fortuitous explosion at the prison and Bull Simons trying to pick his escaping prisoners out of the crowd running like hell to get away. Sounds reasonable to me that Simons wouldn?t have wanted ?useless eaters? in the rescue party and would have left Perot across the border to coordinate communication, cash flow, etc., but who knows.

Scamp

[chucktoo1926]

Eddie Albert, Actor
In many war movies often played the officer with the wide stripe down his back, but in real life, quite another story:

Was awarded the Bronze Star with a combat 'V' for rescuing 70 Marines during the battle of Tarawa in 1943

Ya never know !