More FAC and Flying Songs (2000)

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Jonathan Myer - Forward Air Controller
- More FAC and Flying Songs - Kontum Province and the DMZ - Apr '66 - Feb '67
  - Intro to Give Me Operations - FAC Style Time: 0:49
  - Give Me Operations - FAC Style Time: 2:22
  - Intro to A Death in the Dak Na Valley Time: 1:38
  - A Death in the Dak Na Valley Time: 2:27
  - Intro to Close Air Support Time: 1:47
  - Close Air Support Time: 3:18
  - Intro to The Dumbest Thing Time: 0:54
  - The Dumbest Thing Time: 3:24
  - Intro to Pink Elephant Polka Time: 1:37
  - Pink Elephant Polka Time: 2:08
  - Intro to "Bird Dog" Pilot's Heaven Time: 1:07
  - "Bird Dog" Pilot's Heaven Time: 1:53
  - Intro to Home in Vietnam Time: 0:46
  - Home in Vietnam Time: 2:34
  - Intro to Tally Ho Time: 1:24
  - Tally Ho Time: 3:27
  - Intro to There Are No Freakin' REMFs in Vietnam Time: 0:49
  - There Are No Frekin' REMFs in Vietnam Time: 3:05
  - Intro to My Peace Song Time: 0:58
  - My Peace Song Time: 2:42
  - Intro to Different Missions (by Bill Rothas) Time: 0:51
  - Different Missions (by Bill Rothas) Time: 1:59
  - Intro to Your Flying Special Time: 0:56
  - Your Flying Special Time: 2:42
  - Intro to Air Defense Reunion Time: 1:43
  - Air Defense Reunion Time: 2:34
  - Intro to Gathered Memories Time: 0:59
  - Gathered Memories Time: 2:34
  - Intro to My Last Flight Time: 0:17
  - My Last Flight Time: 1:48

Jonathan Myer is one of the few but dedicated singer-songwriters of military flying songs across the country. He served in the U.S. Air Force for over 26 years, retiring as a Colonel in 1983. His main flying assignments were in the F-86L "Sabrejet" (1958-59) and F-101B/F "Voodoo" interceptors (1959-70) with the Air/Aerospace Defense Command, with "a year off" to fly the O-1E/G "Bird Dog" as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) in the Republic of Viet Nam (1966-67).

In 1995 Jonathan learned that a song he had written and recorded in Vietnam, "FAC and the Green Beret" (January 1967), had become part of that war's "singing legacy." With Dr. Lydia Fish's Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project as a catalyst, he began to document his (and others') flying experiences as ballads, and to perform them on the 12-String guitar. At this point he has more than 30 to his name, and this is his second CD.

As on his first CD, most of Jonathan's songs recount his O-1 FAC experiences, from comic to tragic, drawn from assignments as a Province FAC in Kontum (II Corps), and briefly with Project Tally Ho at Dong Ha (I Corps), flying Bird Dogs over the so-called Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam. His other songs reflect broader flying experiences, both his own and those of the general military flying community.

Jonathan is also a co-director of the Society of Old Bold Aviators (SOBA), which to date has hosted five annual Flyers' Songfests at the Ft. Myer Officers' Club, in Arlington, VA. These sing-alongs combine "traditional" flying songs of the past century with the various performers' own. The last three years have each yielded CD releases.