Former Vietnam prisoner of war shares words of wisdom with NCOA students
Tech. Sgt. Leeann Bledsoe, 15th Wing Professional Military Education instructor, receives an autographed book “Beyond Survival” by U.S. Navy Capt. (retired) Jerry Coffee, former Vietnam prisoner of war, book during a speaking engagement at the Binnicker PME Center on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Feb. 11, 2014. Coffee was among the 591 POWs returned home between Feb. 12 and April 1, 1974, after the U.S. and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam signed a peace treaty which ended the Vietnam War. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jerome S. Tayborn)