Soft talking, slow walking, easy-going and hard-riding, Wild Bill might have been a cavalry trooper, a real horse soldier in another age. these days, the horse of the cavalry trooper eats jet fuel instead of oats and comes with rotor blades instead of a saddle blanket. A lot of chopper pilots won't think twice about taking you into a hot landing zone. They come in low over the treetops, flare, drop down low enough so you can jump without breaking a leg, and then they are out of there. When you need to get out of that LZ, when the enemy triple-A is working overtime, and when you think no pilot in his right mind is coming in for you - Wild Bill will.

"It's my job to get the boys in to do their job, and if it means hanging tough in a hairy situation, that's okay. That's what I get paid for. Heck, if it was easy, they could get anybody to do it."