Lt Col USAF

“ I tried to work with Mike Gilroy who is as good as anyone and we were very different than Carlo and I had been. Unique abilities drive unique methods of coordination. The Weasel Mission required, and still requires, the very best coordination by the crew and between crews. If you can’t communicate, you are in deep and serious crap. I was most fortunate to have Carlo to teach me how to stay alive and then give me the best possible information to do my job. Carlo used to bitch loudly that “All of the brains are in the back seat and all of the decisions are in the front seat”! ”

“ He was right and that’s the way it works best. The methodology of information transference doesn't matter as much as the ability to transfer information quickly and accurately. It ain’t how you do it that matters as long as you do it right! ”

“ Carlo tried to teach me as quickly as he could. We would go down to the Operations center every time we were scheduled for a mission, either as lead or wing, and spend at least 2 to 3 hours looking at the maps and photos on the walls. We would study all of the latest intelligence we had and try to figure out how it was being orchestrated by the Hanoi Cowboys. It was a ritual and we started to be able to retain more and more of what we were looking at. Carlo would start looking at radar systems as soon as we dropped off the tanker each mission in an orderly way. ”