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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP/WKRN) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with ... exaggerated story of how Kristofferson, a former U.S. Army pilot, landed a helicopter on Cash’s lawn to give him a tape ...

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 ...