By the age of 18, James Cox knew he wanted to fly helicopters. In 1969 he arrived in Vietnam as a Huey gunship pilot, an assignment full of risk considering over one-third of all Hueys in combat were shot down during the war. After his tour, he was assigned as an instructor pilot back in the United States. There he found flying with his students to be too dangerous for his taste -- so he requested a second tour back in Vietnam.