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In this riveting episode of So There I Was, we sit down with John “Apache 2-3” Haugen, a Vietnam-era Army aviator with stories that span from the draft line in 1968 to combat flying in the Mekong Delta. John shares how he dodged a ground-pounder fate by heading to Officer Candidate School, ultimately flying slicks and accumulating over 900 hours of combat flight time. With humor, humility, and gripping detail, he recounts narrow escapes, night missions, forced landings, and his close call in a mangrove swamp that led to a surreal “third man” experience. From learning in OH-23s and flying Hueys to coordinating strikes with Cobras and Puff the Magic Dragon, John's stories highlight the courage, camaraderie, and absurdities of combat aviation in Vietnam. Bonus tales include bar tabs in Manhattan, unexpected rat-kebabs, and the elusive “Hawk's” little black book. This is an episode packed with history, grit, and a whole lot of heart!

Doug Petersen was a dustoff pilot in the Vietnam War and was shot down two times during his tour. Doug earned the callsign DUSTOFF 34 after becoming an aircraft commander for the Bell UH-1H Iroquois (Huey) and flew over 950 combat hours. Support the showhttps://www.jcramergraphics.co...https://www.anglicoshop.comhttps://www.patreon.com/former... Doug's TedTalkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?... 00:00:00 Intro | Virginia Military Institute 00:06:59 From High School to Flight School 00:24:20 Training Helicopters to Hueys 00:28:04 Early Huey Models 00:32:41 Flight School to Vietnam 00:46:25 Dustoff's Impact 00:51:30 A Day in the Life of a Dustoff Pilot 01:01:38 First Time Getting Shot Down 01:13:25 Second Time Being Shot Down 01:19:45 Hanoi Hilton Stories 01:24:24 Leaving Vietnam

I think things are turning around That! Crew! If these rumors are true Disney Plus might give us its first monster Marvel show, but of course, we are not all happy about it. Join Mendte, Mashko, Maurer, Features, and the Babiest of Hueys was the breakdown of the recent rumors around Chris Evans returning to the shield for a miniseries. Marvel isn't happy about all these leaks, so the guys also talk about their recent crackdown, plus our first look at Batman: The Caped Crusader from Amazon Prime. Then after a quick review for Tales of the Empire from Star Wars, the guys get lost in the fangs and gore in SPOILER ALERT Blood Hunt, Marvel's newest line-wide crossover. So grab your hold water, crosses, and garlic as you play a little catch-up on your way to the shop. That's That!ThatComicPodcast.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/that-comic-podcast--5896499/support.

Annie Brock is President and CEO of the Leader Transition Institute. She is an Army veteran and Air Force spouse, and a teacher and coach of all things mindset, communication, and leadership.Annie was one of the first 100 women assigned to the 82d Airborne Division, where she was a Battalion Legal clerk and earned her senior jump wings. She received a Direct Commission to the Medical Service Corps, went to flight school, and became a medevac helicopter pilot, flying Hueys and Blackhawks.As a military spouse, Annie homeschooled two daughters during moves across the US and Europe. Along the way, she also grew herself and is a Founding Partner of the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team. Annie and her team launched LTI's flagship philanthropic program, Changing Focus: Moving From We to Me, in 2018.

Whilst deep in Dad Kissing Country, we caught up with good mates of the show Dean and Shaun Harrington for a yarn, founders and owners of fishing, surfing and apparel company The Mad Hueys. These two legends can rise the morale in any situation and have lived quite the adventure filled life, including interviews about some of their viral boat shenanigans and setting the trends of shoeys. We run through with the boys of the story of starting one of Australia's most renowned apparel brands before they take us through some crazy fishing stories and the guest questions. Was great to finally get these two on for a yarn. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Cusick was a Crew Chief on UH-1 Hueys and UH-60 Blackhawks in a career spanning five decades. Mike has seen everything from operating in the Vietnam delta to Afghanistan and Iraq, including flying into an Afghan canyon to rescue Marcus Letrell after Operation Red Wings went south. The episode was recorded onsite at the fab Pima Air and Space Museum and my chat with Mike covers a whole lot of ground. I hope you enjoy it.★Get the full lowdown on the Pima UH-1M Huey Gunship here: https://pimaair.org/museum-aircraft/bell-uh-1m/ Please check out the latest from our sponsor, the Pima Air and Space Museum, through the links below:★Visit the Pima Air and Space Museum's website here: https://pimaair.org/★Learn more about the Titan Missle Museum here: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/★Find out who is in the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame here: https://pimaair.org/about-us/arizona-aviation-hall-of-fame/★Want to know how the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum is progressing? Find out more here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/★Check out So There I Was Was with Fig and Repete here: https://sothereiwas.us/The Damcasters © 2022 by Matt Bone is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267 has been at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan for about a month now. They run constant operations, but as Sgt. Andrew Milner discovered, this can't be maintained without continual maintenance of their UH1-Y(Yankee) Venoms, or super Hueys, and their AH-1 Cobras.

Arnold is a highly decorated Army huey pilot. His book, “More Than Met The Eye” is a story of how Vietnam has impacted his life.  During the war, Bell UH-1 Iroquois or “Hueys” were used for three purposes: As transports or “slicks”, for medical evacuation, or as gunships. The military medical mission was named “Dustoff”. These are the airships that Arnold flew.     #BumpInTheRoad #Veteran #VietnamVet     

Cobra gunship pilot Lew Jennings flew 726 missions in Vietnam, receiving over 50 combat decorations including three Distinguished Flying Cross citations for Valor and 36 Air Medals.  He published a memoir about helicopter combat in Vietnam named “19 Minutes to Live”. He joins us as part of our partnership with the Distinguished Flying Cross Society. Vietnam was considered the first “helicopter” war. Over 12,000 helicopters flew 5.25 million sorties. Eighty percent of the light observation helicopters, forty seven percent of the Hueys and thirty percent of the Cobra helicopters were lost.  Nearly 5,000 helicopter crew members were killed and an untold number wounded. Lew shares some of the tactics they developed “on the fly” depending on the terrain and mission. Many of his missions involved hunter-killer teams consisting of OH-6 scout helicopters, Cobras and Hueys. Sometimes they would fly in “pink teams” consisting of only a scout helicopter and a Cobra gunship. “It was our job to go out and stir things up.” Lew describes some of the more heroic and tragic missions of his time in combat. These included one pilot who climbed out of the cockpit while airborne to kick lose a misfired rocket. One of my favorites was a mission with Eddy “Mad Bomber” Joiner.  In order to deal with a bridge way deep in a ravine, Eddy filled a five gallon can with napalm and attached a phosphorous grenade. His co-pilot carried the homemade bomb on his lap, pulled the pin and barely got the contraption out of the helicopter before it exploded. They destroyed the bridge and were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for that mission. His unit was heavily engaged in the A Shau Valley action that came to be known as “Hamburger Hill”. Lew and several other “grey hairs” came out of retirement to fly hundreds of classified missions in Iraq. Lew was 62 years old at the time and their chief pilot was 72. TAKEAWAY:  Lew says he spent many nights trying to figure out how to best support the guys “with a rifle and rucksack” on the ground. 

Iconos de la Guerra del Vietnam tan potentes como los F-105, infantes estadounidenses con la M-16 al hombro o la niña corriendo afectada por el napalm, no llegan al nivel del helicóptero UH-1 "Huey" (y si encima es acompañado por el tema Fortunate Son de los CCR, mejor).

Inmediatamente después de la Ofensiva del Tet, las ofensivas norteamericanas se intensificaron, y los combates se volvieron cada vez más violentos. Los UH-1 Iroquois 'Huey' artillados fueron cada vez más solicitados, y cada día representaba para ellos una misión de alto riesgo. Te lo cuenta ⚓️ Esaú Rodríguez y 🎸 John Cameron F. y 🎙 Michael Philip J. Casus Belli Podcast pertenece a 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte de 📀 Ivoox Originals. 👉https://podcastcasusbelli.com 👉En Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉En Instagram estamos como @casusbellipodcast https://www.instagram.com/casusbellipodcast 👉En Twitter estamos como @casusbellipod @CasusBelliPod 👉Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👨‍💻Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/aviones10 ⚛️ El logotipo de Carros 10 y de la Factoría Casus Belli están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎵 La música incluida en el programa es Ready for the war de Marc Corominas Pujadó bajo licencia CC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ El resto de música es bajo licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o SGAE. de Ivoox. 📧¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Today we hear a special Combat Story of Edward Fugit, my old man, who flew Hueys in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia just after the Tet Offensive. [NOTE: We're launching on Patreon soon. Register to get notified at https://www.combatstory.com/patreon] This is a special edition for me personally as long time listeners have heard me refer to my old man and his stories and our similar career paths on several occasions. I wasn't sure I'd be able to do this interview given how close it was to home and I'm so glad I did. From a very young age I remember hearing these stories of my dad in the cockpit and vividly remember looking at his Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross on the mantle, wearing his green flight suit when I played Army, and then hugging him before I shipped out to my own war as a combat aviator. His experiences in Vietnam will sound like something from Hollywood's We Were Soldiers where green but determined young aviators flew into hot LZs time and again risking everything for their ground brethren. We also touch on what it was like flying SOG into combat zones on operations nobody would hear about for decades and what it was like to be at the negotiating table as a diplomat with Kissinger at the height of the Cold War in Moscow. I really hope you enjoy this close to home Combat Story with a real hero of mine that was then edited by his grandson. Find Ryan online: Ryan's Linktree https://linktr.ee/combatstory Instagram @combatstory https://www.instagram.com/combatstory Facebook @combatstoryofficial https://fb.me/combatstoryofficial Send us messages at https://m.me/combatstoryofficial Email ryan@combatstory.com Learn more about Ryan www.combatstory.com/aboutus Intro Song: Sport Rock from Audio Jungle Show Notes 0:00 - Intro 1:06 - Guest introduction (Ed Fugit) 2:22 - Interview begins 2:59 - Growing up in NJ and early interest in political science 7:43 - A family history in the military 12:31 - When and how aviation came into the picture 20:10 - A “never quit anything” mentality 22:12 - Flight school experience 27:57 - Feelings going in to Vietnam within the units and that moment in American history 36:36 - Differences in how the Army was structured at that time vs. today 47:37 - The three kinds of missions in Vietnam 53:23 - Combat Story #1 - Silver Star operation in Vietnam 1:09:02 - Intense Special Ops missions with SOG and 1st Airmobile Division 1:31:12 - Combat Story #2 – Incident that made the front of the New York Times 1:50:08 - Combat Story #3 - DFC event 1:58:35 - Stories from time in state department 2:05:48 - Going back to Vietnam in 2017 and thoughts about sons joining the 2:13: - What did you carry into combat? 2:14:16 - Would you do it all again? 2:17:11 - Listener comments and shout outs

Him and Her DJ speak on whats happening now, new shows and movies to watch, the upcoming Super Bowl LV and who will be performing, relationship talk and are joined by special guest Huey V. Huey V is newest artist to Memphis Bleeks' label Warehouse Music Group. Download Huey V's new single "No Regrets" and see what is Hueys' biggest relationship regret. Subscribe! Repost! Share! Enjoy! Like! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/himandhertalk/support

Sharon Mascall-Dare interviews Bougainville and Banda Aceh veteran, Shaun Willson. Life on the Line tracks down Australian military veterans and records their stories. Shaun Willson served as an Army helicopter pilot, fulfilling his dream of flying Hueys. In this conversation with Sharon Mascall-Dare, Shaun talks about his experiences in training, on humanitarian aid deployments and a sense of purpose in and out of uniform. Today, Shaun is a firefighter and works in emergency medical services as a helicopter pilot. To see photos related to today's interview, visit our website - www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com - or follow us on social media: @lifeonthelinepodcast on Facebook and Instagram, @LOTLpod on Twitter and 'Thistle Productions' on LinkedIn.

The Hueys lagi belajar tentang “kosong” sebagai angka jadi saling menjelaskan kalau 0 itu angka juga loh.

The Vietnam War was costly for the USA in many ways.  We lost many troops.  Brave citizens did what the nation's leaders asked.      We lost troops and a lot of equipment.   The main work house of that war was the UH 1 Helicopter known as a “Huey” flown by American pilots who seemed fearless as they were in danger daily.  We sent about 12,000 of them to Vietnam.  Mended Wings , by Colin Cahoon, was just released on Amazon.  This is a powerful interview delving into how American pilots found the courage to do many amazing rescues of wounded GIs in Vietnam.  A well aimed bullet or two could disable a Huey or hit the crew of the chopper.  And there were a lot of bullets flying through the jungle in Nam.  Helicopters delivered supplies, reinforcements, evacuated wounded GIs and provided close air support in combat firing rockets and automatic weapons. Colin Cahoon spend over 1000 Hours flying Hueys for the Army and has written this inspiring book profiling ten American Helicopter pilots who were badly wounded in Vietnam.  He is now a patent lawyer in Texas.     Mended Wings is inspiring.

Our next guest had a super unique introduction into the helicopter world. You guys ever seen Whale Wars? Yeah he was that dude flying the MD500 off the back of the Sea Shepherd's vessel assisting in whale conservation efforts from the North Atlantic, Galapagos, Gulf of California, all the way down to Antarctica. After his stint with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he worked his way up from flight instructing in Robinsons to flying utility and firefighting in Hueys, 212s, and now is flying the infamous intermeshig K-MAX!He's here to chat about his experience with the Sea Shepherds , what its like to fly the K-MAX, utility pilot life, and we dive into the role helicopters play in environmental conservation. Stick around at the end of the episode, where we share a short ground lesson answering Susan from Instagrams question, "What do you do if you find something wrong on preflight? And are all items no fly items?" Let's talk 91.213!

Home cooking, region-based tourism and middle aged grandmas audibly salivating over vermicelli noodles. Those are just some of the many topics that Ainslie and Zak engage in during a stirring discourse relating to three Australian commerical lifestyle programs. These three programs all happen to feature middle aged burly men (two of these men also had moustaches.)

173: Butch Whiting: CEO of Kryptek Outdoor Group, talks about he evolved from his childhood interest in the military, to leading soldiers in Afghanistan, to starting his own business and how all of these experiences connect.  Butch Whiting     Why was it that pushed today’s guest butch Whiting to go into the military at a young age? “I was inspired to go into the military by my grandfather on my dad’s side. He was the first sergeant in the 81st Airborne in World War II. So, from the age of four years old and on I was hell-bent on becoming an officer in the Army because he constantly told me, you need to become an officer.”  On this episode of Finding Your Summit Podcast, we talk with Butch Whiting, CEO of Kryptek Outdoor Group, talks about his grandfather’s influence in his pursuit not just the military, but also his education. “He was obviously a senior NCO. He also saw the advantages of having a college education, which is not always a prerequisite if you do green to gold. But somewhere along that route you need to get an education as well, and I think that was really what he was driving for. I was one of the very first family members to actually go to college and I got an Army ROTC four-year scholarship and went to Gonzaga University.”  What You Will Learn: What got Butch Whiting excited about helicopers? “The helicopter aspect of it was later on. I didn’t go to college now, hey I am going to go to Army Flight School and become a helicopter pilot. I was actually introduced to that when I was a sophomore at Gonzaga University and we did an air assault on a local guard unit in Hueys, and it was super, super exciting for a young guy like I was in college. I started talking to the pilots after we did this mission and they basically started to explain to me, you can go to Army Flight School. You have to be selected. But it is an option and an opportunity.”  Butch Whiting expresses the passion he felt about helicopters at the time “I became consumed by Apache Attack Helicopers because it fit my mentality of benign basically a hunter and I was super enamored with what is the most lethal weapons platform on the battlefield, and so you have to hold your breath, because you don’t know what you are going to be assigned, what branch you are going to be assigned when you come out of college.” What was Butch’s path to Army Flight School? “The OML is based on your performance, your leadership capability that gets evaluated the summer after graduation, your GPA. There are a whole bunch of factors that come in to generate that OML, and they just start to fill in the quotas. So, you might have a year where they need  a project that they know they need 50 commissioned officers in Army Aviation. They start to fill those in and once they get to 50, then you are going to go to your second choice. So, for me I put down Army Aviation, Armor, Infantry, and fortunately I was able to get a slot in Army Flight School. Then you are back to competing again.”  What was the reason Butch Whiting left his role in the military in 2008? “At the end of the day, the reason why I separated was not because I didn’t love what I was doing. It was because I was gone so much from my family. At one point I had my oldest daughter who was 6-years-old. I was gone four out of her six years, and my youngest was 4-years-old and I was gone three out of four.” What was it like being in the cockpit of an Apache Helicopter? “We were forced back in to use these techniques that really hadn’t been employed since Vietnam. Running fire. Diving fire. High-energy tactics is what that was called and it was simply because you didn’t have enough power to do what we were trained to do before 911, before we went into Afghanistan.”   Kryptek Outdoor Group  What were the inspirations for Butch Whiting’s company Kryptek Outdoor Group? “The war on terror accelerated everything across the entire spectrum for war fighters. So, from weapons to communications and just systems in themselves, platforms, vehicles, body armor, you name it, there is just this giant snowball of improvements that are starting to happen, including into apparel. The lead on the apparel improvements was really happening at the spec ops level that then would spiral down. But we saw a lot of those improvements that were happening and going, dude, that would be epic to have in the backcountry elk hunting.”   Military-Inspired Hunting Apparel  During this episode of Finding Your Summit Podcast, “We saw pocket placement that was designed simply for guys that are sitting like we are now in an aircraft and you need to access certain things which is no different from a guy sitting in a tree stand or a deer blind. How smart would that be to have in the hunting market?”   Links to Additional Resources: Mark Pattison: markpattisonnfl.com Emilia’s Everest - The Lhotse Challenge: https://www.markpattisonnfl.com/philanthropy/ Butch Whiting: Linkedin Mark Pattison: Instagram

Greeting, salutations, and welcome back Fireside Faithful! It’s time to tackle the next 500 and what better way then a little new news. Good thing it’s Wednesday. It’s great how these things line up sometimes. Join Mendte, Mr. Maurer, Features, and the Babiest of Hueys as they tackle those comic related current events. From the return of Knull, Ghost Ride flexing new muscles, and a new Green Ranger, to Lucifer being replaced, The Bad Batch, and Zombie Superman One Million. Press play and let’s take those 500 next steps. Welcome to Fireside.

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Once in a while, popular culture affixes certain expressions—memes, really—to particular military aircraft. “Get some!” is affiliated with Vietnam-era Hueys; “I feel the need for speed,” is a Tomcat-ism; and the Warthog with its devastating 30 mm cannon has simply, “brrrrrrt.” On this episode, U.S. Air Force ( https://www.airforce.com/ ) Colonel Craig “Buck” Walker joins us to explain how the popular cry “Make it rain!” is anathematic to the AC-130 Gunship ( https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104486/ac-130u/ ) community, who pride themselves on precision lethality. Buck answers our usual ‘aircraft series’ questions and provides exclusive insight into this incredible platform and the amazing professionals who crew it. During the listener question segment the host explains what airborne carrier aircraft do during a mishap on the flight deck, what a “squadron” is, and how many parts the various F-35 models have in common. Bumper intro music by various artists, theme music by Jaime Lopez / announcements by Clint Bell ( https://www.clintbellproductions.com/ ). This episode was produced by our friends at The Muscle Car Place Podcast Network ( http://www.themusclecarplace.com/tmcpnetwork ) and is dedicated to the brave souls lost on Spirit 03 ( https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/last-ac-130-lost-combat ) on January 31, 1999. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The producers of "Scramble the Seawolves" explain the inspiration behind their documentary about a squadron of Hueys that provided close air support for the riverines in Vietnam. Read more at https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2019/june/i-am-sailor-and-seawolf

1970 kommer 20-årige nyutbildade helikopterpiloten Gunnar Hagstrom från Billings, Montana, till Vietnam för att flyga Hueys. Men hans korta längd gör att han blir utsedd till spaningspilot och får flyga den mindre Hughes OH-6 Cayuse, kallad "Loach", efter förkortningen LOH som står för Light Observation Helicopter. Nu ska han bara överleva 365 dagars tjänstgöring i 17th Air Cavalry regiment, flygandes på extremt låg höjd över djungeln där både NVA och Viet Cong håller till.

Imagine, for a moment, that there was a politician in the United States very unlike the others. One who was willing to promise all things to all people, who had no qualms about changing his position on a daily basis. One who viciously attacked the establishment, made personal attacks on his opponents and gave them derogatory nicknames and violated every democratic norm in the book. One who fought against freedom of the press, and constantly denounced the 'lying newspapers', when they reported on the corruption that he was steeped in. A politician who was perfectly happy to tear up the constitution, and anyone who stood in his way, in order to achieve his ends. A demagogue whose rise and rise to power seemed absurd to the establishment, but made sense to the people, many of whom loved him and believed that he was the only one on their side. And, on this wave of popular support and crazy promises,  and with a complete disregard for the way things should be done, a politician who set himself up as a ruthless, corrupt, kleptocratic dictator. Now imagine there was a politician in the US who fought against vested interests, big corporations, and argued tirelessly and energetically for redistribution of the wealth. A politician who was never afraid to speak his mind, and to speak truth to power: who had contempt for Washington because it was contemptible. A man of the people who was frustrated with being blocked and slandered at every turn, and the ineffective methods of his fellows at dealing with crisis, and subverted a corrupt and contemptible democracy on behalf of the ordinary people. He destroyed a system that needed destroying, and sought power in order to do the good that he knew other politicians couldn't do. A man with a sense of destiny, who was unfairly slandered and maligned by the vested interests and the wealthy elite that he sought to undermine. He would argue he was only doing openly what everyone else had done covertly for years. A man who said: 'A demagogue is someone who doesn't keep his promises to the people, and I kept every one of mine' - and many went along with him, and refused to believe any of the attempts to smear him, because they knew he was on their side. Both men existed in the manic, whirlwind frame of Huey P Long, who cut such a dramatic figure in Louisiana politics, and later national politics, in the 1920s and 30s. The man and the methods make him an irresistible figure for politicised histories. There are always two Hueys: the straight-talking man of the people who sought power to make things better, and the vicious demagogue who exploited lies and popular support to dominate the state and enrich himself. Now, more than ever - when there seem to be two of every major political figure floating around, depending on your stripes - we should examine such a life. It helps that it's also a quite incredible story, and Huey himself is as quotable a politician as has ever lived. In these episodes, we will deal with his origin story, from obscurity in Louisiana to running for office for the first time. 

Imagine, for a moment, that there was a politician in the United States very unlike the others. One who was willing to promise all things to all people, who had no qualms about changing his position on a daily basis. One who viciously attacked the establishment, made personal attacks on his opponents and gave them derogatory nicknames and violated every democratic norm in the book. One who fought against freedom of the press, and constantly denounced the 'lying newspapers', when they reported on the corruption that he was steeped in. A politician who was perfectly happy to tear up the constitution, and anyone who stood in his way, in order to achieve his ends. A demagogue whose rise and rise to power seemed absurd to the establishment, but made sense to the people, many of whom loved him and believed that he was the only one on their side. And, on this wave of popular support and crazy promises,  and with a complete disregard for the way things should be done, a politician who set himself up as a ruthless, corrupt, kleptocratic dictator. Now imagine there was a politician in the US who fought against vested interests, big corporations, and argued tirelessly and energetically for redistribution of the wealth. A politician who was never afraid to speak his mind, and to speak truth to power: who had contempt for Washington because it was contemptible. A man of the people who was frustrated with being blocked and slandered at every turn, and the ineffective methods of his fellows at dealing with crisis, and subverted a corrupt and contemptible democracy on behalf of the ordinary people. He destroyed a system that needed destroying, and sought power in order to do the good that he knew other politicians couldn't do. A man with a sense of destiny, who was unfairly slandered and maligned by the vested interests and the wealthy elite that he sought to undermine. He would argue he was only doing openly what everyone else had done covertly for years. A man who said: 'A demagogue is someone who doesn't keep his promises to the people, and I kept every one of mine' - and many went along with him, and refused to believe any of the attempts to smear him, because they knew he was on their side. Both men existed in the manic, whirlwind frame of Huey P Long, who cut such a dramatic figure in Louisiana politics, and later national politics, in the 1920s and 30s. The man and the methods make him an irresistible figure for politicised histories. There are always two Hueys: the straight-talking man of the people who sought power to make things better, and the vicious demagogue who exploited lies and popular support to dominate the state and enrich himself. Now, more than ever - when there seem to be two of every major political figure floating around, depending on your stripes - we should examine such a life. It helps that it's also a quite incredible story, and Huey himself is as quotable a politician as has ever lived.

Jerry Vance of Hilliard is a 75-year-old Vietnam War veteran who served two tours in Thailand as a U.S. Air Force pilot. The first in 1968-69 was part of a 60-day temporary-duty assignment with the Young Tigers aerial refueling wing stationed in U-Tapao, about 87 miles southeast of Bangkok near the Gulf of Thailand. As a Young Tiger, Vance flew Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers, which were responsible for refueling the U.S. military’s tactical fighter aircraft in midair, usually after the fighter’s aircraft strike on a target and while en route back to the base. “It was really a busy, rewarding job to give them what they needed to get their mission done,” he said. Vance pointed out that each aircraft has to be refueled at a different speed. For example, he said, a Republic F-105 Thunderchief supersonic fighter-bomber has to be refueled at a faster speed than a North American F-100 Super Sabre supersonic jet fighter. “We were in orbit most of the time in Thailand just to keep our positions, and they would come and find us,” he said. The fighter always comes up from behind, he said. Even if a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress subsonic strategic bomber were approaching from the front, the B-52 would fly overhead and return to the rear of the KC-135 refueler, he said. Vance also said it was never just one aircraft being fueled per flight. “It was a minimum two, sometimes four you’re refueling,” he said. “So they just took turns.” The biggest challenges – or “most exciting times,” as Vance describes it – were in inclement-weather conditions. Vance returned to the United States for a few years, learning how to fly Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters – commonly known as Hueys – while in Little Rock, Arkansas. His second tour in Thailand was in 1973-74, this time in Nakhon Phanom, just west of the Makong River in eastern Thailand. As part of the 21st Special Operations Squadron stationed at the Royal Thai Air Force Base, Vance was flying Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters. The transition from southern Thailand to the United States and back to eastern Thailand wasn’t so difficult, he said. “The big shock is switching over from a fixed-wing airplane to a rotary-wing airplane,” he said. The mission there, he said, was to take people and supplies into “places Nixon said we never flew.” “We would take anywhere from five to 50 people in the back of our helicopter; we would take them out in the middle of nowhere; we would put them on the ground,” he said. “We’d leave them there one, two, three days, depending on what the mission was, and then we’d come back and pick them up – always in a different spot.” After the war, Vance remained in the Air Force until 1987 and spent time at the Hickam Air Force Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, helping to recover space capsules. He later moved to the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, training pilots to fly Sikorsky HH-53 "Super Jolly Green Giant" helicopters. Vance’s decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal with three clusters, the Air Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Air Force Achievement Medal, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, the National Defense Medal, the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with device and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. Vance was born in Pensacola, Florida, and moved to Pickaway County, Ohio, when he was 4. He graduated from Darby Township High School (now Westfall) and attended Ohio State University and the University of Southern California, earning his bachelor’s degree at Ohio State and master’s degree at USC. Vance joined Ohio State’s ROTC pilot-training program. He and his wife, Connie, have two sons, Jeff (Lora) and David (Rebekah); a grandson, Jarod; two granddaughters, Emily and Sara Rowe; and two great-granddaughters, Lilly and Delilah. This podcast was produced by Scott Hummel, ThisWeek assistant managing editor, digital.

Huey joins Chris and Stu to talk about his Top 5 MC's. Of course Huey did it in style by inviting the boys to the slick London Edition Hotel where they hung out and went in on Hip-Hop's greatest. They talk about what makes an MC, Huey's growing up in New York and the buzz around the genre and his love for it.Huey tells us about the time he could have saved rock n roll, hanging out with Beck and Everlast, the Golden Rule, how to make a brass monkey, as well as a dive into Hueys past in both the marines and as a musician and radio presenter.If you love hip hop, or are a fan of one the country's best Radio presenters and musicians this episode is 100% Columbian. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Huey joins Chris and Stu to talk about his Top 5 MC's. Of course Huey did it in style by inviting the boys to the slick London Edition Hotel where they hung out and went in on Hip-Hop's greatest. They talk about what makes an MC, Huey's growing up in New York and the buzz around the genre and his love for it. Huey tells us about the time he could have saved rock n roll, the Golden Rule, how to make a brass monkey, as well as a dive into Hueys past in both the marines and as a musician and radio presenter.If you love hip hop, or are a fan of one the country's best Radio presenters and musicians this episode is 100% Columbian. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Occy is joined by fellow Aussies Shaun and Dean Harrington, aka The Mad Hueys, for episode 19. The boys talk the founding of the Mad Hueys, tell a few stories from trips they've taken together and Occy, of course, takes part in a Shoey.

The Hueys in the New Jumper By Oliver Jeffers Read by Jarvis Cocker The things about the Hueys is that they are all the same. They all look the same, think the same and do the same things. Until one day, Rupert Knits himself a new jumper…. How will the other Hueys react? A hilarious story about individuality.

Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match. Tonight, Bruce told us about two amazing Vietnam war heroes, Ed Freeman and Bruce Candall, His story of heroism has already been chronicled in the book and movie — 2002’s “We Were Soldiers” — but he said that receiving the nation’s highest military medal was something he never expected and never could have scripted. He is the second helicopter pilot to receive the award for actions at that battle in November 1965. Then-Capt. Ed Freeman and Crandall volunteered to fly their UH-1 Hueys into the heart of combat in the valley after military commanders deemed the area too dangerous for aircraft. “That was the first real test of our helicopters to resupply and rescue guys in that way,” he said. “Normally we’d never fly that close to the fight, and we didn’t like to fly in the dark. But when it turned as hot as it did, we just kept going into the night.” Freeman and Crandall, then an Army major, spent more than 14 hours evacuating wounded soldiers and resupplying the fighting force with ammunition and rations." The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden's series at Blackfive. Bruce does an incredible job with the series every week. What is Pundit Review Radio? Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called "groundbreaking" by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 8-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston's Talk Station.

Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match. Tonight, Bruce told us about two amazing Vietnam war heroes, Ed Freeman and Bruce Candall, His story of heroism has already been chronicled in the book and movie — 2002’s “We Were Soldiers” — but he said that receiving the nation’s highest military medal was something he never expected and never could have scripted. He is the second helicopter pilot to receive the award for actions at that battle in November 1965. Then-Capt. Ed Freeman and Crandall volunteered to fly their UH-1 Hueys into the heart of combat in the valley after military commanders deemed the area too dangerous for aircraft. “That was the first real test of our helicopters to resupply and rescue guys in that way,” he said. “Normally we’d never fly that close to the fight, and we didn’t like to fly in the dark. But when it turned as hot as it did, we just kept going into the night.” Freeman and Crandall, then an Army major, spent more than 14 hours evacuating wounded soldiers and resupplying the fighting force with ammunition and rations." The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden's series at Blackfive. Bruce does an incredible job with the series every week. What is Pundit Review Radio? Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called "groundbreaking" by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 8-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston's Talk Station.