Flight, Here is a new story about flying in Viet Nam. It was the beginning of the rainy season in III Corps. I had been flying UH-1Dog model helicopters from the time I climbed off…
Real War Stories
Thu Douc
Flight, Kiss my ass if it isn’t anniversary time again. Every year I get out all the material I have collected about this battle and have a good look at it. Frenchie Gibeault has been…
Rock and Doc
Flight, Saturday at the fish camp in Hudson. David Warden and Rock Lungarella and I flew together in Viet Nam quite often. I was introduced to David Warden by Rock, at that time they were…
Graves Registration
Flight, The last few weeks have been quite trying around the fish camp. Remodeling, broken computer, shitty weather, and a lack of fishing just to name a few of the stressors. January has not been…
Rifle with a Wreath
I was on standby one night in 68 with Ray Jimison and Cpt Dan Vogle AC, when we received call early in the morning o dark 2 something. Rise and shine rush out to the…
Terminology of a Slope Landing
I just returned from an early morning “scene” call and not being able togo to sleep, thought I might pass on a “flash back” I had while I was waiting for my medical crew to…
WIA and Evacuated
Contributed by Tom Martin – Blackhawk 67 I was wounded on May 4, 1968, when a 122mm rocket hit near the officer’s shower, about 10m from my front door. This started a sequence of moves…
The Year Was 1968-1968 Vietnam
During the 60’s, America’s younger generation was getting a lot of resentment from authority figures. A lot of our young men and woman were fighting a war they knew nothing about, and a lot of…
Trial by Fire
All hell broke loose as the ‘Slicks’ approached the landing zone. But you did not break formation. You sucked it up and flew into the bowels of the Grim Reaper. First Person by Captain Thomas…