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Kristofferson joined the Army in 1960 after graduating from Oxford. He became a helicopter pilot who trained at Fort Rucker in Alabama and also attended Ranger School, then worked as a helicopter pilot in Germany in the early 1960s and was eventually offered a teaching position at West Point in 1965, but turned it down and left the Army to ...
Kris Kristofferson, the legendary country singer and acclaimed actor, died peacefully in his home in Maui, ... Kristofferson joined the U.S. Army and became a helicopter pilot, and formed a band ...
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar equally drawn to the words of William Blake and Hank Williams, an Army helicopter pilot, a Golden Gloves boxer, a ruggedly handsome movie star and a recording ...
Kristofferson has been lauded as a legendary Renaissance man: an Army helicopter pilot, Rhodes scholar, Golden Gloves boxer, literature enthusiast, footballer, silver screen stud and one of the ...
At times, the legend of Kristofferson was larger than real life. Johnny Cash liked to tell a mostly exaggerated story of how Kristofferson, a former U.S. Army pilot, landed a helicopter on Cash’s lawn to give him a tape of “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” with a beer in one hand.
Kristofferson was a Renaissance man - an athlete with a poet's sensibilities, a former Army officer and helicopter pilot, a Rhodes scholar who took a job as a janitor in what turned out to be a ...
Kristofferson is the debut album by the singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson. It was produced by Fred Foster and released in June 1970 by Monument Records . After working a series of temporary jobs, Kristofferson became a helicopter pilot for oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico .
The song, which begins with a spoken introduction by Kris Kristofferson, tells the tale of Niles Harris, a soldier in the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the United States Army during Operation Hump in South Vietnam on November 8, 1965.