Once again, I have to say, the facilities that take the time to investigate the neurological service providers that are available end up seeing how much more comprehensive our NeuroBehavioral Learning  program is.

We also have taken on several new private clients in our Confidential Recovery Program and Concierge Services, including a high-profile TV star who we will be doing some PTSD work with.

There are more in the pipeline so new announcements will be forthcoming.

Dean Kraemer
Clarity Enterprises, Inc.
818-383-6673
www.clarityenterprisesinc.com

I wanted to share with you Rick’s description of that day in 1975 below. As a result of this operation he was the Navy Helicopter Association Pilot of the Year, and received the Stephen Decatur Award for Operational Competence from the Navy League of the United States.

“On the morning of April 29 at 10:00, the sky was filled with a very large number of South Vietnamese helicopters, mostly UH-1 Hueys. They were looking for the U.S. Navy fleet, escaping from the final assaults by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong.  Since our helicopter was inoperable, we offered our flight deck to the Vietnamese pilots, but since we could only have one on deck at a time, we had to land the helicopter, unload the passengers and crew (refugees), and throw the helicopter over the side.  I was able to save a couple of the helicopters by flying one to a larger ship and creatively storing three others in places that weren’t designed to take them.  I actually landed one on the fantail of the ship, with the tail rotor hanging over the stern.

“There also was a helicopter on a Vietnamese ship loaded with refugees.  There were so many people on board that deck space was at a premium, and even though the helicopter was loaded with highly volatile jet fuel, the pilot and crew and their families were living and cooking inside the helicopter.  They were afraid it would cause a huge explosion; so they asked me to fly it off the ship, and I agreed.  It was a very tricky take-off because of the crowded conditions on the deck, but it was one of the helicopters we saved.

“I also had to fly one of the Vietnamese helicopters to medevac a Vietnamese sailor who had been severely injured when a towing rope snapped.  We actually had to repair the helicopter, because the tail rotor had been damaged by another Vietnamese helicopter as it landed on the deck.  We took a whole tail boom off a helicopter we were throwing overboard and replaced the damaged tail boom on the helicopter which had supposedly been assigned to the Chairman of the Vietnamese Joint Chiefs of Staff.  I flew the injured sailor to a ship that was going into the Philippines early, and they not only saved his life, they saved his leg.

“After the air operations ceased, the Navy had officers board all of the Vietnamese ships to take command and bring the ships into the Philippines under the U.S. flag.  All of my pilots and I went to different ships, and I was assigned to one of the largest ships.  Throughout the operation, I was most impressed with the bravery, pride and professionalism of the Vietnamese air crews and the ship officers and crew members; it made me wonder why the country had fallen so quickly after we had pulled out.”