Front page of the Highland Air Times, the weekly newsletter of Pleiku Air Base, dated 13 October 1969. This issue reports Silver Star medals awarded to two A-1 Skyraider pilots and an Army ground liaison officer of the 6th Special Operations Squadron, even as the same squadron was being named for inactivation amid a major U.S. Air Force troop drawdown in South Vietnam - a snapshot of the Vietnamization period. Project: 219418