Interview With A Night Stalker - N. Andre Anson

Last November, at the Savannah Night Stalkers - 30th Anniversary
Celebration, I was able to reconnect with a lot of my
brothers-in-arms through the events of that week.  From
fellow pilots & crew dogs to past commanders & staff
officers, our docs & maintainers, both military &
civilian it was a huge homecoming event for so many of us. One of
the guys I was able to reconnect with was Neville Andre Anson,
aka Dre.


As you will find out as you listen to our talk, Dre was a crew
dog in the unit, and we flew many missions together. After we saw
each other at the 30th Anniversary Celebration we exchanged
contact info and agreed to catch up after the New Year. Once we
did and I was able to catch up with Dre I was in shock. I was in
shock because I never knew his full story, the tragedies that
were part of it, and that he was a close as someone can be to
taking his own life as one can. Even during this recording, I had
trouble holding it together when Dre talks about one of the
darkest days of his life.


Out of those life events Dre has taken it upon himself a mission
to help others like himself, veterans who are in trouble and need
help. Dre started an organization called Red Tape Warrior to
pursue this calling. Dre is also working with the Veterans of
Foreign Wars post in Richmond Hill and the Savannah chapter of
the NAACP. You can catch Dre on his Facebook page or feel free to
drop a comment to him on this page.


Also available on our Youtube Channel.