Retired Air Force CMSgt Wayne Fisk describes his remarkable adventures as an Air Force pararescueman seeking to fulfill his father’s exhortation, “Son, you'll pay your dues for living under freedom,” by becoming “a warrior for America.” Fisk served his first tour in Southeast Asia from 1967 to 1968 as a PJ with Detachment 2, 37th Aerospace Rescue Recovery Squadron (ARRS) at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB), and later with the 40th ARRS. When he returned in 1969, he was stationed again with the 37th ARRS, but this time at Da Nang in South Vietnam. He returned to the 40th at Udorn and later at Nakhon Phanom RTAFB, 1970-1972. In 1970, as a staff sergeant, Fisk volunteered for the Son Tay Raid, a secret mission to rescue American POWs outside Hanoi. “Unfortunately,” he recalls, “the camp was empty. The bad guys didn't know that we were there, that we were coming. That is not the reason why the camp was empty. And we came back empty-handed. That was … very disappointing … one of my worst moments, coming back without those fine men.” He also has the possibly “dubious distinction” of being the “last one on the final … stagecoach going out of Dodge,” as the last man to board the last helicopter evacuating the Marines after the Mayaguez incident in 1975. As he put it, “somebody has to turn off the lights.”