Jack of Harts

The original Cowboy One was Lieutenant Colonel Mathew Johanson.  He was one of the guys that…well…he was real nice, but real hard too.  He had to be to get all of us into fighting shape and that wasn’t easy.  We never really called him anything but Colonel, because…well…he was The Colonel.  He died at Fort Wichita, like a lot of other pilots and ships did.  That was a real bad day for us all.  We never could have survived many more wins like it.