Thanks to an amazing and skilled group of pararescue jumpers, he survived and because of it, to this day, continues to share his story. “A lot of ‘bad’ happened over in Vietnam; there’s no ...

the Vietnam War drama "The Last Full Measure" is out on digital today. A Blu-ray and DVD release will follow April 21. Air Force Pararescue Jumper William H. Pitsenbarger sacrificed his life ...

Pararescue jumpers subsequently have served in Korea, Vietnam and engagements around the world, including the Global War on Terrorism.

William H. Pitsenbarger was a Vietnam War hero. In 1966, the 21-year-old Air Force pararescue jumper, or P.J. in military parlance, descended from a helicopter — a real-life deus ex machina ...

More fascinating that his brush with Hollywood royalty is hearing Pighini share—in vivid recollections burned into his memory—what it was like to drop down into the jungles of Vietnam to save ...

The PJ [pararescue jumpers] model is these things we do ... own dinner table where we often watched in the early 1970s the Vietnam War play out on television. And I realized that my father ...

The PJ [pararescue jumpers] model is these things we do ... own dinner table where we often watched in the early 1970s the Vietnam War play out on television. And I realized that my father ...