A batted baseball flies high, but the son of former Los Angeles Dodgers player Steve Sax had his sights set on aviation.
Steve Sax with son, John, one of the five Marines killed in the training mission crash last year. The plaster of paris jet Johnny Sax made for his dad, Steve, in the third grade is more precious to the former Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman than his two World Series rings and all the baseball awards he won in his nine years with the Dodgers.
It’s been over a year since his son and four other ace Marine pilots stationed at Camp Pendleton died in a training mission crash in the remote desert near Glamis, California. They were flying in an MV-22B Osprey – a hybrid airplane and helicopter. He was on track to become head pilot on Marine One, the call sign for the aircraft – usually a helicopter – carrying this country’s most precious cargo – the President of the United States.
“He’d come running in at the end of the inning and say, ‘Dad, did you see that C-130 going over?’ He knew how much it cost, what the pounds per torque and engine specs were. He was like a sponge. Relentless in his pursuit.” “If a ground unit requested help, who gave a s–t how hot the LZ was? Our brothers in arms needed assistance and we were there,” recounts Wally Krywko, who flew with the Purple Foxes in Vietnam.
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