Jose Cano, crew chief in Vietnam

Vice Commander of VFW Post #8553 Jose Cano had just turned 20 when he joined the fight in Vietnam in October of 1971. As a Specialist E-5 in Army Aviation he was a crew chief door gunner and had some mechanics and aviation maintenance training at Fort Rucker. Cano was stationed at Marble Mountain, Da Nang, which was in I Corp, the northern most of four tactical zones in South Vietnam. “I went…