{"id":14758,"date":"2024-12-06T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/?p=14758"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:24:56","slug":"crusader-23-id-rather-be-lucky-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/?p=14758","title":{"rendered":"Crusader 23 I&#8217;d Rather Be Lucky Than Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>by<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tom Tesmar The autobiography of one Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a retired US Army Warrant Officer aviator who served one tour in Vietnam during 1968, after which I remained in the National Guard and Reserves for the remainder of my 40 years service. In my civilian life, I am a Technical Writer and consultant to the radiant floor heating industry. I now live in Hudson, Wisconsin with my wife Sheryl. I will be offering two to three more books on politics and technology in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blurb.com\/b\/2059856-crusader-23-i-d-rather-be-lucky-than-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Tom&#8217;s Book on Blurb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cover_2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cover_2.jpeg 206w, https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cover_2-203x300.jpeg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:4,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.blurb.com\\\/b\\\/2059856-crusader-23-i-d-rather-be-lucky-than-good&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250315105222\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.blurb.com\\\/b\\\/2059856-crusader-23-i-d-rather-be-lucky-than-good&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-13 18:22:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-19 15:32:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-11-05 21:01:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-11-05T21:01:10+00:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Tom Tesmar The autobiography of one Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam I am a retired US Army Warrant Officer aviator who served one tour in Vietnam during 1968, after which I remained in the National Guard and Reserves for the remainder of my 40 years service. In my civilian life, I am a Technical Writer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","iawp_total_views":39,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"modified_by":"Webmaster","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}