Bill Nevins was a neat guy and a damned good Marine.
Too young to leave us.
Bruce Colbert

A Good person and CO

I'll always remember Dogma 00 and youse two folks driving it that day @ New River..."you got the controls...no I don't you got the controls..." Whoops! (foreground crunching noise...one dead flight line fire extinguisher).

Then, later on, when I was tasked with taking the Marine reps & honor guards to his son's funeral in MD (I think) we (the crew) were quaranteed to the flight line until the ceremony was over. Not a good day for some honest and well meaning Marines.

Hooper

Bill Nevins and HMH-463

Bill was a Marine who taught me alot about flying a big helicopter in combat.

thomas.zuppke wrote: I'll always remember Dogma 00 and youse two folks driving it that day @ New River..."you got the controls...no I don't you got the controls..." Whoops! (foreground crunching noise...one dead flight line fire extinguisher).

Then, later on, when I was tasked with taking the Marine reps & honor guards to his son's funeral in MD (I think) we (the crew) were quaranteed to the flight line until the ceremony was over. Not a good day for some honest and well meaning Marines.

Hooper

Bill taught me how to handle a BIG helicopter in combat. He was truly a helicopter pilot. I understood how he was part of the first CH-53 squadron HMH-463.

Larry Wert

Perhaps in error

Bill Nevins was the XO of 362 when the fire extinguisher got killed by Dogma 00. I'm thinking Ray Wiley was the CO at the time and lost a son to a heavy hauler accident near MD. That was the funeral I was referring to.

Hooper