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Shame really, horrible way to go but he is amazingly still looking upbeat. My old man was apart of that ill fated Rh-53 team off of the Nimitz, never got over why they left assets and dead behind but no bitter words for Carter. They estimate he has 10 weeks?
Your pops was in Operation Eagle Claw or whatever the name of it was with the Iran hostage crisis?


He's 90 years old, every day he's been hopping out of bed since 75-80 (roughly) has been a "free day". Everyone passes at some point and with Reagan, Ford, and Nixon all gone well it's not a surprise his health is failing.....granted George H. W. Bush is 91 and recently broke his neck or back or some crazy shit like that so I wouldn't be surprised if he passes soon as well.
He was bud, career long air crew from the Huey to Sea stallion. They were put on rapid deployment and those Rh-53 were converted mine countermeasures chosen based on fuel capacity and load. The irony is they were meant to be destroyed on site when mission complete but the 5 were left intact for the Iranians to scoop up. More so..we had just sold six(?) to Iran before the 79' revolution.