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with a Twist  Vietnam Vets and Pro Golfers Agree: Helicopters
Are the Way to Fly Phil Scott Posted: June 1, 2000  Published
May/June 2000  Straight Up with a Twist Vietnam Vets and Pro
Golfers Agree: Helicopters Are the Way to Fly By Phil Scott
Lowell Tucker hit the steaming jungles of Vietnam on his twenty-
first birthday. He has no idea how many helicopter missions he
flew during his tour of duty, just the number of hours: 1,300 in
one year, all of them in combat. Tucker was there for the 1968
Tet offensive, a nonstop three-week battle. The night before Tet
began, he and his four-man Huey helicopter crew had been sent to
Khe Sanh to evacuate a Green Beret outpost that had been overrun
by the North Vietnamese. And then there were the covert missions
flying Green Berets into and out of Laos.   "It was always easy
to get them in," Tucker says laconically. "But to get them
out..." He pauses. "You'd have half a dozen Americans running
around on the gr