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xi I would like to thank Rich Boylan and Tim Nenninger at the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland , and archivists Meghan Lee and Jason Schultz at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California, for their invaluable assistance. I would also like to express my appreciation to the historians and archivists at the US Army Center of Military History at Fort McNair, Washington, DC; the Military History Institute at Carlisle, Pennsylvania; the US Army Combined Arms Research Library at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and the Vietnam Center and Virtual Archive at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, for their assistance. Special thanks go to the US Army Command and General Staff College for providing a sabbatical to work on this book and to the Command and General Staff College Foundation for providing funding for research in Vietnam and Laos. I am particularly indebted to Lt. Col. (Ret.) Mike Sloniker, who provided invaluable information on the valiant army aviators who flew in support of the ARVN in Laos in 1971. Special thanks for providing photos and other information also go to Joe Kline, who flew as a door gunner with Company B, 101st Aviation Battalion, in 1971, and Donna Thompson, whose husband, the late Fred Thompson, flew with the 174th Assault Helicopter Company in Lam Son 719. Last, but certainly not least, I would like to express my appreciation and that of many of my colleagues to Merle Pribbenow, who is an expert on all things Vietnamese and has given freely of his time and expertise to translate Vietnamese documents and educate a generation of Vietnamese War scholars; we are all forever in his debt. This book would not have been possible without his invaluable assistance and wise counsel. Acknowledgments [34.227.112.145] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 14:30 GMT) A Raid Too Far ...