John

Have you visited this site to try to reunite with your old mates?

http://freespace.virgin.net/forces.friends/aarc/aapr.html

Reply for Mr Curtis

Thankyou for your reply Mr Curtis,
it was much appreciated. I have been on the web site for my Regiment, but can't seem to make that move...if you know what i mean. Kinda get a lump in my throat when i apply for membership and then i just click off. Thought a lot about my mates though since coming here and visiting your web site. A load of memories have flooded back, not all of them good. I will keep trying though.
Would like to thankyou all for accepting and allowing me to write here. After reading a lot of the messages and stories you guys put on here, kinda makes me realize that what i saw and experianced is pretty insignificant.
Thanks again.
Yours sincerley,
John A. Frederick 🙂

Different perspectives

John

you are welcome here , however

A little brotherly advise

" You can not get there from here"

Please get in contact with your old regiment, All our members will tell you, that is where you will best be able to share your memories and address your emotions. I talked with lots of Korea and WWII vets, and even other Nam vets, but it was my own USMC Helicopter vets that helped me the most.

You will be best served in the company of those that understand where your stress comes from.

In our case a MEDEVAC or Emergency Recon extract means something different to a ground Marine than it does to us. In most cases both the MEDEVAC and the Recon extract were the end of a mission for them and and in most cases they felt relief, to us it was the beginning and in most cases was a pucker factor experience. We would be feeling very exposed during these missions and they would get into the Helicopter feeling they were finally safe, while we felt completely at risk.

Different perspectives.

I can remember being shot down and when the rescue helicopter came in to pick us up it was under intense heavy enemy fire and I was thrilled to get on board. I felt completely safe being fired at in that helicopter because I was being rescued. I have been the Crew Chief on rescue helicopters and felt completely exposed while rescuing the other Crews. So these completely different perspectives to the same experiences are why I say you need to contact you old unit and get together with you own mates.

Reply to Mr Curtis

Mr Curtis Sir,
thanks for your reply, point taken and i meant no offence or mis conception. I know that i cant find that step here. I certainly don't want to come here and `unload´ on you or your other members. i'm certainly not suffering from PTSD, never saw enough of that kind of combat. Hope to be able to talk to some more of you vets in the future, as there is a lot to learn from you guys.
Thanks,
yours sincerly,
John A. Frederick

FYI

I think your own mates will be able to help yo much more than we can, POPASMOKE members did not serve in N. Ireland.

FYI

From a POPASMOKE member, John Dullighan

There is a Regiment in the British Army called "The Green Jackets". You may be interested in the origin of one of the former regiments, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, that was combined with others to form The Green Jackets. The Baker Rifle that the regiment used was an improved version of the Kentucky rifle. The regimental dress uniform is green, not the traditional red.

The King's Royal Rifle Corps (60th)Formative Years in North America
On 8th July 1755 a column of British redcoats under General Braddock, advancing to take Fort Duquesne on the Ohio River were ambushed by the French and their Red Indian Allies firing from concealed positions. The dying General`s last words `we shall learn better how to do it next time`, sum up the reaction at home to this defeat, for within a few months a special Act of Parliament had provide for the raising of the 60th Royal American Regiment of four battalions of American colonists. Among the distinguished foreign officers given commisions was Henri Bouquet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management (including the unofficial introduction of the rifleand `battle-dress`) were to become universal inthe Army only after another 150 years. The new regiment fought at Louisborg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 inthe campaign which finally wrested Canada from France; at Quebec it won from Wolfe the motto `Celer et Audax` (Swift and Bold). These were conventional battles on the European model, but the challenge of Pontiac`s Red Indian rebellion in 1763 was of a very different character and threatened the British control of North America. The new regiment at first lost several outlying garrisons but finally proved its mastery of forest warfare under Bouquets leadership at the decisive victory of Bushey Run.

The American War of Independence (1774-82)
Two battalions fought in the war, formed a force of mounted infantry to increase their mobility and crowned a series successful actions by repulsing an assault by the French and Rebels in Savannah in Georgia and capturing the colour of their Carolina Regiment. Neither battalion was present at the surrender at Yorktown and they were withdrawn to Canada when hostilities ended.