Cheyenne Green Beret Chopper Pilot Had Eye Shot Out — And Completed His Mission

An enemy bullet hit his leg as a Green Beret special forces operator in Vietnam, he was burned in a helicopter crash training to be a pilot, and on a May day in 1967 was shot seven times times while flying a UH-1 Huey on a mission. He kept flying and completed the mission. But Jerome “Jerry” Montoya, 86, of Cheyenne would go on to take the controls of a chopper again and finish a 25-year career with the U.S. Army. His scars leave him with no regrets. “Do the thing that you are good at and do the thing...