‘I didn’t expect any medals’: Air Force vet reflects on perilous Alaska helicopter mission

Erie native Jim Greider commanded a perilous nighttime mission described at the time as the most dangerous peacetime helicopter rescue in U.S. Air Force history. Fifty years later, it gives the Iroquois High School and Thiel College graduate a kind of retrospective chill. “It didn’t bother me at the time….

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