Editor’s note: If you know a veteran who should be included in this series, please email Mark Swendra. WATCH VIDEO of Hal Behnke describing his days in the Air Force. Each year, Hal Behnke gets to share stories and reunite with a group of guys who had the challenging task of retrieving (while in midair) film canisters, about the size of a garbage can, that had been ejected from some of the earliest spy satellites.