HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Retired Command Sgt. Maj. John Wade is a former flight engineer with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the Night Stalkers.
Wade joined the Army as a way out of Logan, West Virginia, and a future he could not see for himself in the coal mines.
“I ran off and joined the Army and didn’t tell my mother. And that was my escape. It was either the Army or nothing,” Wade said…