US Air Force Col Leland Kennedy: Two Time Air Force Cross Recipient Vietnam War Colonel Leland Thornton Kennedy is one of the rare and courageous few to receive the Air Force Cross not once, but twice. As a captain assigned to Detachment 5, 38th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron at Da Nang Air Base during the Vietnam War, he risked his life on multiple occasions to save his fellow Americans under intense enemy fire. On October 5, 1966, Captain Kennedy piloted an unarmed HH-3E rescue helicop