Flyboy Hat

Inspired by "The Great Bunny Hunt." It started with cleaning rods. When 2LT Jack Price couldn't get M16 cleaning rods through normal supply channels, he went straight to Colt and got them delivered to the jungle. The men of B Co, 173rd Airborne, took note. If their LT could pull that off, they had a bigger mission for him. They pooled their money, wrote Hugh Hefner, and asked him to send the Playmate of the Year to a combat zone in Vietnam.  In January 1966, Jo Collins landed at Bien Hoa. She walked hospital wards, held hands with wounded soldiers, and stood beside dirty, exhausted paratroopers fresh off a ten-day operation. The bunny ended up painted on a Huey. The Huey went back to war. A tribute to the men who needed a reminder that home still existed, and to the ones who never made it back. Brotallion. Never let your presence meet the ground.