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God-Emperor
Our aircraft were designated and marked as non-combatant, and were not allowed to have fixed armaments on the aircraft. All we were allowed were personal weapons.So you were also in the rescue and evacuation unit, which was definitely not a completely safe job.
Roughly half of the LZ's we went into were under some level of hostile fire. Our best defense was coming in and going very low and very fast. Saved many lives though, so it was worth it.
In my tour of duty in Germany during 1970 I actually saw the a part Iron Curtain from the air. Quite depressing it was.I was on the other side of the Iron Curtain as a radio operator and truck driver in a radio reconnaissance and radio communication jamming unit and later as a reservist in a mobile communications cable switching station.
I'm glad we were able to meet here on CF, rather that back then.