Player Embed Code: Download Embed Share Retired Lt. Col. Robert Pardo Feature Story 3d Audiovisual Squadron June 29, 2015 | 2:30 Retired Lt. Col. Robert PardoRetired Lt. Col. Robert Pardo is known for carrying out the unorthodox aviation maneuver, later coined as the Pardo Push, to save the lives of his wingmen during a bombing mission over Vietnam, March 10, 1967, also earning the silver star.