[News Script: Saigon] Page: 1 of 2
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(SAIGON--A BOARD OF EIGHT AIR FORCE OFFICIALS IN SAGON
CONVICTED COLONEL GERALD K(EHRLI (KER'-LEE) OF SLOXING AND POSSESSING
MARIJUANA AN D ASKING MEN IN HIS SQUADRON TO GET IT FOR ML. THE
46-YEAR-OLD OFFICER WAS FOUND GUILTY OF' SEVEN COUNTS, INCLUDING
GIVING THE DRUG TO MEN IN HIS UNIT.
THE VETERAN OF 2C YEARS IN THE U-S AIR FORCE SHOWED NO EMOTION
AT THE DELI TERY OF A VERDICT. AT THE TIME OF THE OFFENSE ME WAS
COMMANDER OF A MILITARYY AIRLIFT SQ.UADRON IN VIETNAM. THE FIVE-DAY
TRIAL WAS HELD At SAIGON'S TA~N SON NHUT (TAHN SUHN YUriT) AIR
BASE. HE COULD RECEIVE A MAXIMUM OF 33 YEALS IN PRISON DSNISSAL
FROM THE SERVICE AND LOSS OF ALL PAY AND ALOWANCES.
(SA IGON --THE A MERICAN COMMAND RPORTS U-S FIGHTER-BOMBEPS ESCORT ING
B-52S :AVE ATTACKED A SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SITE INSIDE NOPTH
VIETNAM FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT DAY. THE PLANESC WERE ON STRIKES
AGAINST THE HO CMI MINH TRAIL--CHIEF SUPPLY LINE FOR THE ENEMY.
THE CObMNAND ALSO REPORTS THREE MORE HELICOPTERS LOST DURING
THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE OPERATION IN SOUTHERN LAOS AND TWO LOST
IN SOUTH VIETNAM. U-S CASUALTIES TOTALED 15 DEAD, THREE WOUNDED
AND ONE MISSING~
ONE OF THE HELICOPTERS WAS A CARG-CAPRYING CHINOOK THAT WENT
DOWN IN THE LOWER PANHANDLE OF LAOS WHIVE SUPPORTING A SOUTH
\IETNAMIESE GROUND DRIVE. THE CHOPPERS LOST IN SOUTH VIETNAM WERE
N ARMY HELICOPTER THAT CRASHED 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUE'(HWAY
RAND ANOTHER DOWNED BY ENEMY FIRE IN THE MEKONG DELTA, SOUTH OF
SAIGON.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Saigon], script, 1971-02-15T24:00:00; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1427300/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.