(WHTM) — As we continue our series, “Veterans Voices,” we meet a Midstate man credited with preventing a catastrophe in Vietnam. Rick Olson of Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, had a successful 30-year career at IBM as a project manager and consultant. Before that, he was an Airman First Class in Vietnam. When Olson was 19, he did not want to be drafted, so he signed up to join the Air Force. “I was actually anxious to get there because I was a bomb loader.