Re: Marble Mountain - 1969-1970 - H&MS-16 HML-267 personnel I was at CamPen when VMO-5 became HML-267 in 68. Spent most of 69 in VMO-2, MMAF, fl...
Re: Looking for Operation SHUFLY personnel I was not there but VMO-2 was in on the action.
Re: Operation Shufly I was not there but VMO-2 was in on the action.
Re: CH-53Ds of HMH-463 made two small napalm drops Why are the landing gear down? Lanny
Re: How do I find out if my dad was a member. ace neds a med eval.
I flew 151858 24 flights, 31.7 hours from 28 Feb '67 to 16 Sep '68 as an instructor pilot. That was in both VMO-5 and HML-267. I took her on two Gun...
Ribbon/medal precedence has changed since we were in. PH out ranks the AM now.
What I did not like was when the whispering voice became loud and panting hard!---Found and on the run! Lanny
Go to the following site for the whole story by John Morgenstern himself. I have a Phrog Phlyers patch sewn in the armpit of my flight jacket that I ...
Sad to see this. But we will all come to this. He swore me in as a regular 1967. Then I stepped on his toe. He was a family friend through my fathe...
I flew two VH-1Ds at HMX 1971&72: 015561 and 015334. My last flight was 26 Apr 1972 in 015334, a bit past your Jan '72 date. Lanny
I looked through some of my books and came up with this in "Marines and Helicopters 1962-1973" Library of Congress Card No. 76-600052; PCN 190 003074 ...
Never heard of anything like this before. I've got over 3000 hrs in the Huey, one year flying guns in RVN. If you could get it in a 3-4 foot hover, ...
Spent one night there '66, before the siege. They would not let any of us inside the wire. They put up a GP tent on the other side of the runway for...
Try going to: and searching MAG-16 command chronologies or even the squadron's. A lot of good info there.
I have tried to post a correction to my message above a couple times but I guess I am not smart enough to click on the right things. AT 946900 is...
AT 946900 is 1500 meters south of Hai Van pass right on Hwy 1. Lanny
When I read about it before seeing it, I thought, maybe I'll buy a sheet. Then I scrolled down and saw the picture and PRICE! For that amount I hope...
In '65-'66 I thought "C" Med was just west of Da Nang(medevaced myself there once.) We also had the NSA hospital just west of Marble. I took head wo...
It was an 19 shot pod designed to be shot shotgun style off fast movers as an air to air weapon. We had to add an intervalometer (sp?) in one of the ...
I would suggest that you use the 18 shot rockett pods vice the wimpy 7 shot ones. Air frames change 7 is the gun kit that first armed our Hueys.
Then there was a 53 midair out of Santa Anna when an Army trained PUI did not understand the Army vs Naval way of changing lead--new lead flys forward...
Do not know why this popped into my head while reading the above, but my wife was blond at the time. We were new to NAS Whiting and our first time of...
Do not know if this applies, but on a presidential support flight from Chicago back to Quantico, circa '73, turbulent wx over W.Va., heavy, in and out...