Jingle bells, shotgun shells, VC in the grass. You can take this merry Christmas and shove it up your a$$! Thats the one I remeber most. Lanny
Tell the Col. that it is "power settling" or "settling with power" to some, pure and simple, not VRS or what ever they may want to call it now. Roll ...
Think about your squadron's reunion tent, bar, beer, chairs, tables set up. In walks a current Marine, in flight suit, sporting your old squadron's p...
This picture is from the middle of our '68-'69 VMO-2 Cruise book. I am the front seat and John Spivey is the observer in the back. Monkey Mountain j...
Vietnam was one of the best experiences of my life. I had played "war games," exercises or what ever, flying over my USMC grunts in Conus. In RVN I ...
The name tag would have the last name not a first name. My USMC flight suits have slanted chest pockets, but my name tag was always in leather on the...
Dan, According to a 1967 map I have, published by the Army Map Service, the following have the definition of "settlement, village": A, An, Ap, Ban, ...
If I remember right, after the third PH you could request to go home as Kerry did. Lanny
Always wondered how the sixth blade escaped without damage Maybe it was out of track?
('67) On a night formation training flight, UH-1E, during the last part of a break up and rendezvous, we instantly developed a huge 1 to 1 beat (vibra...
The difference is caused by the position of the collective that the pilot has selected.
When things were that tight, in the Hueys, we would "nose in", most of the time, drop off our load and do a half assed 180 aileron roll getting out. ...
It was also called a "free kill zone." That was to graphic so it was changed to "specified strike zone."
Don, Remember flying up the Hudson River on that mission and seeing the Trade Towers, just completed. How things have changed. Stay the course! P...
You all need a copy of this book! "Marines and Helicopters 1962-1973" First MarCad's ordered to Pensacola started 1 July 1959. Feb 1961, "...
That would have been a fuel air explosive "bomb."
I think "Cowboy" was Lt. Din. Ring a bell? Lanny
The orginal gun kits were titled Air Frames Change-7. Ed Alexander might be a good source. Lanny
Did VNAF have H-34's? 18 Oct '65 I flew Huey gun escort for VNAF H-34's on the first American led recon team insert into Laos. According to "Mar...
I was a Huey/OV-10 pilot. Was not too thrilled when in '69, at HMX, was told that I had to fly the 46's along with H-3's, and either Hueys or 53's. ...
Flew, with others, that night from VMO-6, Ky Ha, Hueys, to cover VMO-2's missions the next day. Arrived at dawn. Quite a site. They did a job on us ...
In 1966 we tried the same type of thing up near the DMZ, helos droping the fuel barrels and others trying to set it off. As I remember, we did not ha...
On a Medevac mission ('66), in the pick-up zone, waiting for my crew chief and corpsman to get back with the wounded Marine, a bullet came through th...
VMO-6, lead, Maj. Robert Presson with Capt. Jim Perryman; wingman, Capt. Stan Kruger, with 1/Lt. Orlando Ingvoldstad. Why the question now?
Flew Phrogs, but never in RVN. Had .50 cal. in the cockpit in RVN, Hueys. I think this lines input is out of place. Who's honor is greater than mi...