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 ...

Kristofferson had already been a Rhodes scholar, an arm... Ask Kris Kristofferson ... scholar, an army captain, a janitor at Columbia’s Nashville studio, a helicopter pilot and a killer ...

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 ...

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 ...