‘What’s happening now is worse’: Midway skipper who pushed choppers off deck in fall of Saigon

 

                                       “the most brilliant tactical commander I’d ever known.”

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One thing that makes the looming fall of Kabul so much worse than the fall of Saigon is that being closer to the ocean had its advantages, Chamber said.

“We had a huge amphibious force sitting off Saigon,” he said. “We don’t have a huge amphibious force sitting off Kabul.”

For the Midway, the rescue operation began with the arrival by helicopter of South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, the former chief of the air force who had also served as prime minister, and Lt.

Chambers, now 92 and living in Sun City Center, Florida, has a unique perspective.

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