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Years later, Brace (then a captain) crashed his T-28 Trojan into a cornfield near the mouth of the Choptank River near Cambridge, Maryland during a training flight on 3 January 1961. He fled the scene but turned himself in ten days later once his empty flight-suit was found__ hidden in vegetation__.[3] Brace faced a court-martial and was charged with deliberately crashing his aircraft and faking his death so that his wife Patricia could collect insurance money to pay off debts.[9]Brace pleaded guilty to unauthorized absenceand was acquitted of the deliberate destruction of his aircraft.[10] The court-martial ended his military career.[11]
Brace then worked as a civilian pilot for a number of companies before flying for BirdAir, an airline contracted by the Thai Border Patrol Police. BirdAiralso supported USAID interestsin Southeast Asia
He was sent in October 1968 to a POW camp on the outskirts of Hanoi nicknamed The Plantation, where he met John McCain in the cell next to him
Because Department of Defense regulations prohibit civilians from receiving military awards,the nominations were denied four times. The most recent application in 2011, sent to the office of United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus through fellow former POW John McCain, was successful.[28] Brace commented that "these medals are the ones no one wants to get" as personal suffering is involved in qualifying for them.[29]
Brace worked for a few years in the late 1970s as a manager forEvergreen International Aviation, supporting aviation contracts for theUnited Nationsin South Vietnam, Africa, and Mexico.