Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Major General Richard Vernon Secord, Retired (whanau i te Hurae 6, 1932), he rangatira o te United States Air Force me te mahi nui i roto i nga mahi huna. I te timatanga o tana mahi hoia, he mema ia o te roopu rererangi tuatahi a te US i tukuna ki te Pakanga o Vietnam i Akuhata 1961, Operation Farm Gate. I wehe a Secord i Vietnam i te tau 1965 ki te haere ki te Air Command and Staff College. I muri mai, ka hoki ia ki Āhia ki te Tonga ki te Rāwhiti, ka tukuna ki te Central Intelligence Agency hei mahi i te
Te Pakanga Tūmataiti i Laos. I a ia i Laos, ko ia te kawenga mo etahi mahi hoia rongonui. Ko tētahi, ko te Pakanga o Lima Site 85. Ko tētahi atu ko ia anake i angitu ki te whakaora i ngā mauhere o te pakanga o Vietnam. I puta enei e rua na ona kawenga mo te tirotiro i nga mahi a te Royal Lao Air Force, Air America, me Raven FACs.