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Michael Mackey was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1948. Because his father was in the military, Mackey and the rest of his family lived in several different places throughout Mackey’s childhood, including Japan, Hawaii, and South Carolina. In 1966, Mackey graduated from high school and began working for a sign company. A year later, Mackey’s father told him that he would be receiving a draft notice soon and advised him to talk to a recruiter. Mackey did so and ended up accepting a four-month delayed entry into flight school. During the summer of 1967, Mackey traveled to Fort Polk, Louisiana to do his basic training, which lasted about two months. Then, around Christmastime, Mackey reported to Fort Wolters, Texas for primary flight school where he would train to become a warrant officer. After finishing his training at Fort Wolters, Mackey traveled to the Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia and began learning how to fly a Huey helicopter. Mackey was there for four months; his training ended in November 1968. Mackey was then supposed to be sent to Vietnam. However, because his father was serving there at the time, Mackey was sent to Würzburg, Germany instead. About three months later, Mackey volunteered to go to Vietnam. After going through the six-week CH-47 transition in Fort Rucker, Alabama, Mackey finally arrived in Vietnam in August 1969. While in Vietnam, Mackey served in the Charlie Company 159th Assault Support Helicopter Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. In July 1970, Mackey was present for the siege of Fire Support Base Ripcord, which he describes as terrifying. During the autumn of 1970, Mackey ended his tour in Vietnam and went on to attend a two-month armor basic course in Fort Knox, Kentucky. When the course ended, Mackey then went to Fort Rucker, Alabama where he became a S1 of the Student Aviation Battalion. After doing that job for about a year, Mackey got a job as an Army Emergency Relief officer for Army Community Services. Then, from 1972 to 1973, Mackey served as an operations officer for a Chinook company at Camp Humphreys near Anjeong-ri, South Korea. Later, in the mid ‘70s, Mackey once again traveled to Germany where he worked in a tank company. Mackey spent his last year in the army working in a medevac company at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Finally, after serving for almost nine years, Mackey left the army but stayed in El Paso to run an Indian jewelry company and work part-time for Concerts West. In 1980, he then switched to working in the car business and moved to Columbia, South Carolina.