High altitude flight in helos...case of; We were really bored one day and took a CH-53 up to 22k, smack dab over the field @ MCAS New River...one...
USMC Chinook? The picture in the responses was a US Army "Sh**hook." The uniform has got to be US Army... Maybe your "mate" just wished he wa...
Hearing Loss It finally has happened, after so many years of failing hearing tests and tinitus (sp), the VA has authorized 10% for the tinitus, 0...
Pop a smoke re union re: 2010 OKC...should be looked at...not because we're close to there (100 miles), but because the USMC is widely supported ...
Military related hearing loss Have filed with OK VA for recognition of my tinitus, but they keep putting me off...showed them the continuous reco...
But 263 was all "phrogs" unless they went composite for a cruise...which might go back to what I mentioned before. There's something in the back of ...
Having made it thru VT-2 alive was a good enough feat for me...I used to peruse many of the local crash sites and see what components were still ident...
I think I am in error. the trip-7 guys might have been "Furhman's.":)
Everything a survivor pilot learned in a combat environment and hostile LZ was minimal flight thru hover, to landing and unload...then off and gone. R...
I guess one could ask "Wimpy" Whimmler, as he was the CO of one of the next deploying squadrons, or John McMenamin who was MABS 24 CO when what you de...
Was Dick Driggers with you? As a pilot of some sort? A Female USMC officer died in the crash? Joe Shanley might know, or be of help. PLS adv...
Jim Freeman...are you of the TX Freemans from HMH trip 7's or a veteran-trained HMH-204 person from MCAS New River, or both? Hooper:)
Something just popped into my head. (No vodka cause I'm on anti biotics). There was a CH-53 crash @ NS Norfolk at the time you mentioned. I'm pretty...
Sorry, I erred in a previous reply: The year you speak of (1972) HMH 461 had 4 CH-53's on board the LPH 02 (Feb thru Aug). Our aviation crew was a c...
Well, let's get real, is probably right. I try to use just a couple of things to guide my decisions on these reunions: 1. In LV I wanted to see t...
I've an entry for a X-C to Boston with a Reavis 14 Feb '74. I always thought his name was Tess. Think we even bowled together @MCAS New River... ...
Need not mention all the % of cost hikes, etc. Thought Laughlin, NV was a good deal historically. Pensacola and the beach hootches was always the ...
Wow! Saw an in country V-22 in the background when the war monger Senator what's his name was doin an interview...So we know there is at least one the...
Having had the testing done by both the VA and the CivDiv guys, the results are the same. The worm in the ointment is that the VA has to admit to your...
Having read a blurb on here a while ago, I'm trying to press the VA to put me in the study group for AO, as the USAF has admitted dispersing same over...
Don't know where "Too Tall" Kenney is now a days, but he used to track all that sort of "shuff." I'm pretty sure you were in a HMH-461 bird that was...
Was also there and in "the screw" in 76-77 when Mike Hedon and Maj Flynn lost the roof. Hardest thing to figure out was how to shut down the engines. ...
I raised such question a long time ago. Those that like to monitor this message system (re-v-22) blew me off. My thoughts were too negative. My p...
Sometimes, when i drink too much milk, and take all those VA directed drugs, I remember the pictorial of the USAF rescue mission (CH-53's):eek: just a...