RUHMAN, Bryant L. (Captain) Call No.: K239.0512-281 IRIS No.: 00904199 IRIS Tape No.: no tape Accessibility: OPEN Pages/Time: 42pp/no tape Class: U Date/Location: 3 July 1963/Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam Interviewers: Joseph W. Grainger Source: Project CORONA HARVEST Collection Topics: (1962-1963) Oral history interview with Captain Bryant Ruhman, air liaison officer in forward air control section Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC) Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Republic of Vietnam. Topics include convoy escort and air alert missions of 110th Liaison Squadron in I Corps, JAOC failure to teach Vietnamese to conduct operations, missions of Vietnamese helicopter squadron, attitude of "Dirty Thirty" toward Vietnamese pilots and Military Assistance Advisory Group advisors to 110th Liaison Squadron. Also discussed is the forward air guide program as unproductive and mismanaged, the Vietnam Air Force held back, USAF Air Ground Operations School team effective because of backing of Military Assistance Command (Vietnam), US Army air request network, effectiveness of authorized low priority interdiction target program, munitions applications and effectiveness, sincerity of Montagnards, problems of open arms policy, operation of Farm Gate not always according to mission and photographic reconnaissance.