Re: Camp Lejeune from 1957 to 1987. I know this is an old thread, but it is very important to us who have served at New River. I watched a specia...
Uh-1e / uh-1b I see this a lot here and on other sites about VMO-1 reguarding the UH-1B. I was in VMO-1 when we had both Bs and Es. VMO-1 had UH-...
TAT101 and M97 TAT 101s were put on only a few Hueys in each squadron. It was not a highly desired modification due to jamming problems. VMO-1 ha...
UH-1N Patch I was with HML-167 when we got the first 6 Marine N models at New River. I never saw that patch before. I know that I'd like to have ...
The pod installed intervalometer was replaced after a crew chief at Pendleton installed one and took the blast from a fully loaded rocket pod. The onl...
Squadron Aircraft Numbers I was in VMO-1 also, and the Hueys started with 1 (ER 123) and the OV-10s (ER 204) started with 2 of a three number air...
VMO-1 Call Sign I was attached to VMO-1 Avionics from Oct. 68 to Dec.72. The tail letters were ER (Echo Romeo) and the call sign was Yazoo for bo...
I was with VMO-1 in 1971, when we sent the first 9 "J" model Cobras to WesPAC to HMA-367. Upon HML-367 being redepolyed in the summer of 73 to Futema,...
Count Me In I was in VMO1 when 167 came home to New River. I also brought in the UH1Ns and AH1Js, and was there when it split to form HMA 269. Th...
I saw him back around 1988 I was driving down a back road during an ice storm and ran off the road to avoid a nasty accident. I got out of the ca...
CWO4 Harding When I checked into VMO1 in late 1968, there was a CWO4 Harding flying OV10s and HUEYs. He told me one day while waiting his co-pilo...
Hmx-1 I was there in 1977 before I received a medical discharge. I was in the avionics shop and later maintenance control.