Mike Zolezzi, Sr. enlisted in the Army as an ROTC. After receiving a free college education, he requested to be in the medevac division, and was commissioned in 1969 to go to Vietnam. Zolezzi says, "I wasn't there to justify the war, but to help those boys." At 22-years-old, Zolezzi was flying medevac missions in and out of  I Corps, the northern most region of South Vietnam, and Cambodia. Illegally flying missions in Cambodia, the Army issued Zolezzi a fake passport in the event he was shot down so he could claim he was a tourist to avoid enemy capture. Zolezzi was the sole survivor of an assault on his medevac team while rescuing wounded soldiers at Pleiku Air Base. Zolezzi speaks candidly about his PTSD and how it has affected his life: "I won't stop having PTSD until I croak."