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Mhm . Mhm .

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So Ron Terry , Ronald Colonel Ronald W .

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Terry and what he was was a fighter

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pilot . And then after his fighter

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pilot days really shortly after the

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captain , he got assigned to Aerospace

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research division out in wright

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patterson Air Force Base , they sent

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him to Vietnam . This was right when

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Vietnam was kicking off and they sent

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him to Vietnam as a part of the studies

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observation group to observe and then

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come back and go into kind of R and D .

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The R . And D vault and pull out stuff

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that they could use right away because

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they were lacking stuff . And so he saw

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over there the big issue was close air

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support . Vietnam was really hard .

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They didn't have any way to call in

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airstrikes with really accuracy . He

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was just basically straight in the

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jungle . He pulled up the study . It

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was called the lateral firing study .

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And what I mean by lateral firing study

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is like a gunship firing on Abbott's

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side . You know ? Captain Ron Terry

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came on board and uh he was a fighter

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pilot , he saw the close air support

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issues . So he kind of found out that

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okay what what was in the close air

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support range and he found this this

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project and he's like this absolutely

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could be done . However , he wasn't

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getting any support . So what he did as

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he went around , not even going outside

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of the bounds , not putting in any

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requests or anything , just kind of

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went around and put together all the

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pieces he needed to basically build an

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aircraft and then he flew it on

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his own dollar . Like he paid his own T

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DY and everything fluid to England

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where they did test operations and

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literally in the , in the , in the

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darkness of the night , we're going

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around taking the parts , they needed ,

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mounting weapons , mounting cameras ,

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making mounts and uh , fluid out over a

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glass of the waters of Eglin Air Force

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Base and tested it . Uh , not only did

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they tested , they got it to work . And

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not only that he doesn't see barriers .

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Uh , probably like most of us have been

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institutionalized to see , he just

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didn't see barriers where normal people

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would see barriers , mm hmm .