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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe wife of author Robert Mason (he wrote the award-winning book “Chickenhawk” about his experiences in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot) sent us a message on Facebook about this creep, Dennis Surrendi. According to Ms. Mason, Surrendi lifted nearly all of Mr. Mason’s book and inserted it into his own book “Set Me Free”, so I went looking around the internet for him and I found this article in the Nanton News<\/a> about the author and his book. Apparently, as with Waverly Reynar<\/a>, Surrendi was kidnapped and forced into the Vietnam War. I didn’t know that kidnapping Canadians is a thing. Apparently, when the Marines aren’t doing it, the CIA picks up their slack.<\/p>\n Of course, Mr. Surrendi had a skill set that no American would have;<\/p>\n Little did Surrendi know that the CIA was profiling students, and Surrendi \u2014 with a varied background that includes playing professional hockey for three years with the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks, is a neurosurgeon, has a masters of science in fish and wildlife management, a PhD in wildlife ecology and a PhD in human ecology \u2014 ranked high in the profiling, with his strengths in physics and chemistry.<\/p>\n \u201cI fit into criteria for what they were seeking,\u201d says Surrendi. \u201cI got set up by the CIA through the University of Wisconsin, got drafted and couldn\u2019t get out of it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Even though his name doesn’t appear on the rosters of the Red Wings or the Blackhawks, Surrendi swears<\/a> that he played for them when he was 16, until he got tired of it and went to college at 19 years old, within a year or two, he was a neurosurgeon and he has several other degrees like two Master of Science degrees and two Ph.D. degrees in Wildlife Ecology and Human Population Dynamics and Ecology, you know, because neurosurgeon pay doesn’t go very far.<\/p>\n Anyway, the CIA kidnapped him and sent him to Vietnam to pilot helicopters against his will, because we can never have enough neurosurgeons flying our gunships.<\/p>\n \u201cThe army in the States in the mid \u201860s were developing the first high-technical assault helicopter and were looking for candidates to fly it,\u201d Surrendi says. \u201cThey were looking for certain types of candidates.\u201d During his last nine months in Vietnam, Surrendi flew a Cobra AH-1 assault helicopter, which required that he obtain top secret clearance. \u201cI was dragged into that war,\u201d says Surrendi. \u201cI wanted to express the kind of situation a person can get into. It was terrifying in some cases, to be quite blunt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Robert Mason, “Chickenhawk”, was also in the 229th, see how coincidental that is? I can’t find the 49th Aviation Company, but Mason served in the 48th Aviation Company – he called it the 49th in his book and Surrendi fell for it. <\/p>\n Needless to say, Surrendi had to self-publish the book, because that’s how you publish a book that you lifted from a world-renown, award-winning book written by a real author.<\/p>\n We started the process for a FOIA on Surrendi this morning, but Mary couldn’t find a Serial Number on him – meaning that he wasn’t in her database of Vietnam veterans. Even Wave Reynar was in her database.<\/p>\n Surrendi’s admission to his lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nHe served as a helicopter pilot with the 229 Assault Helicopter Battalion in the 1st Air Calvary for about a year and a half before being reassigned to the 49 Aviation Company, 12 Aviation Battalion, where he served more than six months.<\/p>\n
\nDuring his service in Vietnam, Surrendi received two purple hears, the Bronze Star and Silver Star for bravery, and became one of the most decorated non-Americans in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n