After The Mission. Back at Da Nang, wounded Sergeant Owens is eased out of the chopter by farley and a T-shirted Marine. Then (middle) Farley talks to his own pilot, Captain Vogel, about the pilot who had to be left behind in YP3. “If we had stayed another 10 seconds under those V.C. machine guns, “Vogel said, “you or us would never have got out of there.”