signing with Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson. After college, Kristofferson followed in his father's footsteps: He enrolled in the Army and became a helicopter pilot and, eventually ...

Kris Kristofferson was a complete man, the kind that hardly exists anymore, soldier, singer, pilot, poet ... on his belly ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... was a captain in the army, having served as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot, and had been assigned ...