Eagle Biography

Kenny Fields

Commander Kenny Fields’ distinguished career in the U.S. Navy spanned 22 years.  He flew 139 A-7 combat missions over Southeast Asia. On his first mission, he was shot down over Laos and evaded capture for forty hours.  The effort to rescue him involved 189 sorties, seven lost planes, four pilot ejections and one pilot’s incarceration as a POW for five years.  After Vietnam, he instructed in the T-2C and TA-4J, and later served as the officer in charge of a reserve A-4L and A-7B squadron.