Nose & side numbers,USMC Rotorcraft When I started flying the H-53, there were two numbers, usually 1-22 or some variation of that. The Squadron'...
Gooney birds. When I left my det in Korea in 1976, it was a gooney bird (USMC) that provided my ride back to Okinawa. Hooper:)
HMH-461 & VMO -1 call signs. I'll back Bill Phillip's statement up to 1970 re: Haley. The tail letters were CJ (hence the ALO suggestion). V...
Phrog crash @ Yokuska Japan ~1973 Might wanna e-mail Joe Shanley . If I remember right, he and Dickie Driggers had a crash about then, in Japan, ...
Those that visably oppose our wars. Was at the "day before" opening of the wall in DC, way back when. Some mothers from a tour group were dropped...
For the record, Wally, I'm going to log off "Pop A Smoke" and then go to google and I would wager that the info I was querying about is still there. ...
"spate" on down helios What kind and where? In general terms, helicopters don't really want to fly, yet there seems to be an abundanc...
topsarge: The guys are mostly right as far as I can figure. I know the Iwo was in country from time to time up until '75 when I did a med cruise on ...
Recovering veterans Am lousy at sending cards and greetings, but if any of those brave folks you speak of need some quiet and remote R&R, we have...
MCAF Tustin Sat on the starboard side of the communter train from LA to Oceanside this past spring and got to see all the building going on and t...
Seems to me, the buyout thing is a procedure in lieu of anticipated barrage of claims. Legals like to defer to precidence, and heretofore buyouts woul...
A green smoke zone, come on in. Guess my invite to discuss your thoughts is meaningless? Am most certain, what I know of this forum, our opinions...
OK Thnx for that info. Personally, I tend to believe it was embellished, but then again, didn't see anything like that go on as was trying to get the ...
C'mon Roy. I'd really like to hear what you have to say. Personally, I think that there are several things now lacking from the reunion...I've been ...
It's across the street from the Downtown Marriott Courtyard (Blackstone?)...2-3 blocks from the convention center. On Wednesday, while awaiting for my...
saw Larry Adams @ the reunion, he has just retired from being Airport Mgr @ Walla Walla, WA. He mentioned another adams or so (when I first met the Ad...
Was there looking for you Larry. Signed on w/HMH 462, but didn't go to many places except the purple Foxes and 164 hosp rooms. Did the hot & steamy af...
Maybe you've been upsde down too long... You got the wrong person Aussie...Scroll on up the page and reply to who originated the thread. I was j...
Seems to me you have a solid copy on the reality of the VA, with maybe one exception...I needed the VA twice in the past 12 calendar months and they l...
That's a fine and healthy attitude Larry, but get with the program. None of that shtuff counts now, except in your mind (heart). You get the same bed...
Hey Roy Pitt...I'm not Larry and I don't know what you're talking about, but my opine to Larry was that you're a Marine for life only in your heart (a...