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Update to an interesting story- some of you guys may have seen the story in the last couple of years about Ronald Forrester'69 lost in Vietnam in Dec 72 and listed on the MIA rolls until his remains were found and identified in Dec 23 and brought home to be interred at Arlington in Oct 24.

Aggie magazine
https://www.aggienetwork.com/ag/5ee9f60d289f/

News stories like that have covered a good bit of the story but I think they've missed highlighting an important part it

I think the real story is daughter Karoni Forrester's (class of 96) commitment to pushing and driving the search for not, just his remains, but the 1,800 Vietnam MIAs still missing for the last 50 years. No doubt Capt Forrester, Aggie and Marine is the main part of this story, but Karoni and rest of the family are real story behind and between the lines

The update news is that Texas Monthly is producing a podcast later this month and the magazine will have an article this summer - I'm hoping they capture and tell us move of that part of the Forrester's' story

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-final-flight-of-captain-forrester/id1597678826


He was called at the campus muster in 78

I put him on the local list last year after remains were identified

and I think I'm gonna make sure he's called and answered here tonight after his internment at Arlington Oct 24

My Vietnam unit still has 10 MIA. And we were a helicopter company with our own search capability. And we're still in contact with the folks doing the searching. It's extremely frustrating.

I just listened to the first episode. Very well done. I am looking forward to listening to more of them. I had shared an article about Ron with my dad a few years ago. My dad knew Ron from the RAG, VMAT-202, at Cherry Point. Ron was a B/N and my dad was a pilot, they flew together in training. At that time the Marines only had a few A-6 squadrons as it was a new airframe for them, and they were training pilots and B/Ns as fast as they could. My dad was assigned to VMA-(AW)-224, and onto the USS Coral Sea for a cruise on the line at Yankee Station and Ron went to VMA-(AW)-533 and Nam Phong, Thailand. My dad made it home, served for 33 years, and is still an active member of the Intruder Association today. God Bless the crews who did not make it home and their families.