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bombs and then use the release bu on to je son the rocket pod on the enemy on the next pass and, if it really started to burn, I would je son it immediately. This was a good idea but I hap- pened to set the le outboard switch to bombs (maybe the lack of sleep a ected me here) so when I used the bomb pairs posi on on the weapons release switch and pickled (when I thought the rocket pod would impact in the tar- get area) I dropped my full rocket pod. Then the hung rockets started to burn more so I set up the switches right and dropped my hung pod on downwind. Never heard anything so I guess it ei- ther impacted on some enemy or it hit in an open eld. I ew the next day with no incident, but I would say that it taught me to get the proper rest in the future (when possible).
The third night I was leading a two ship and launched to support a Fort with Flares from a Flare Ship. When I checked in on the radio with the Flare Ship the Fort answered that the Flare Ship had aborted for a bad engine and it would be back in an hour. I replied that this was a prob- lem as we would run out of fuel in 50 minutes. He replied that this wasn’t a problem as they ex- pected to be overrun in 40 minutes. To this I re- plied that we had 4 bombs each and as we saw a line with hundreds of ashes we would deploy our bombs on that line.
He replied: “Great and I will put a mortar in the middle so you can deploy on both sides of it.” He shouted Green just before it hit right in the mid- dle of the ashes. I dropped my rst bomb right in the middle so two deployed his bombs east of this hit and I deployed the rest of my bombs west of this hit.
During our bomb employments we had started several res to where we could see a line of tress where they had been. We used the light from the res so we could employ our 20 MM throughout this area.
Later I met the Advisor to the Fort (An Australian Major) at the bar and he found out I was lead of this ight. He came over to me and shook my hand and said I had saved his life. He also o ered that if I could arrange an R&R to Australia he
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would foot the whole trip. But, I wasn’t able to get a ight to Australia - DARN!
I went on to y
231 missions in
the F-100 and
then 61 more in
the F-4 out of
Ubon RTAFB,
Thailand in ‘73
without ever tak-
ing a hit. I credit
this to my evalu-
a ng the situa on to where everybody was ying as fast a they could and s ll ge ng hit, so my planned tac c was to y slow when I was low so they would shoot in front of me. This seemed to work although the urge was to y fast when low.
he President of the United States takes
great pleasure in presen ng the Dis n- guished Flying Cross to Captain Ronald R. Green for heroism while par cipa ng in aer-
ial ight as an F-100 Pilot near Quang Ngai, Republic of Vietnam from 29 May 1965 to 2 June 1965. During this period, Captain Green ew seven sor es to defend Quang Ngai and its outpost from a regimental size a ack, as the Viet Cong were a emp ng to cut the country in half. Flying day and night in marginal weath- er, mountainous terrain and in the face of heavy ground re Captain Green delivered his ordnance with unerring accuracy. On one of these missions the are ship ran out of ares and the ordnance was delivered in a mountain valley with only burning napalm to light the target. The outstanding heroism and sel ess devo- on to duty
displayed by Captain Green re ect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
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