Dick Rutan, Gone West

[Matt Gunsch]

Dick Rutan was a decorated Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War. He flew many combat missions in the F-105 Thunderchief. Colonel Bud Anderson's last assignment in the USAF was as a squadron commander in the Vietnam War. He commanded a squadron of F-105s. NO doubt they were reminiscing about the airplane and some of those experiences. That could be why people were letting them have a moment.

His biography only says he flew the F-100 in combat, then A-7s after the war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Rutan