Joyner, Ron, “Joyner, Ron (Interview outline and video), 2010,” Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29086.
Ron Joyner was drafted into the Army in 1970 as part of the first group to be drafted through the lottery system. He volunteered for helicopter pilot training, which he took at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and was then sent to Germany. From there, he was sent to Vietnam toward the end of American involvement there. Most of his missions in Vietnam involved ferrying troops into the field and bringing them back again, and he does not recall being involved in any large battles.