Budapest to Vietnam

NICK HUN gives his account of what it was like to serve in combat as an officer with the 5^th Special Forces, the 173^rd Airborne Brigade, and as a pilot with the 190^th Assault Helicopter Company, flying "guns" over the same ground he fought upon wearing a Green Beret.

After two tours in Vietnam, he fulfilled the remainder of his thirty-year army career in the Military Police Corps, retiring as a colonel and being appointed Commissioner of Corrections for the State of West Virginia. BUDAPEST TO VIETNAM is his story