signing with Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson. After college, Kristofferson followed in his father's footsteps: He enrolled in the Army and became a helicopter pilot and, eventually ...

Things were said that African Americans weren’t smart enough to be pilots, but we prevailed," said George Hamilton. The ...

Kris Kristofferson, the legendary country ... After earning his Master’s in 1960, Kristofferson joined the U.S. Army and became a helicopter pilot, and formed a band while stationed in West ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... was a captain in the army, having served as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot, and had been assigned ...