Category: TINS

Category: TINS

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Bad Bill Bauman

Bad Bill Bauman

I was a helicopter pilot with the 187th AHC, I think we had the most extraordinary commanding officer in the entire military.   I must say, that ... Read More
Alone and Expendable

Alone and Expendable

The running lights beneath the tail rotors of the last lift platoon arched out across the darkness of the southeastern sky like the handle of ... Read More
Rockets Over Tay Ninh

Rockets Over Tay Ninh

Hi Guys Thought you might enjoy this little 'Tay Ninh' story. As far as the pole incident, Joe, this is the way it happened... ... Read More
Agent Orange

Agent Orange

Flight,

As a new Aircraft Commander with the 187th Assault Helicopter Company some of the jobs assigned to me were somewhat less than desirable, in fact ... Read More
Flips

Flips

Adjacent to our Company area and attached to our small base camp near the Cambodian border was a battalion of Filipinos Engineers.   Nobody ever ... Read More
Blade Strike

Blade Strike

"So Crash, do you remember doing a medevac near Katum where you chopped
down a couple of trees getting in? Asks Frenchie Gibeault sitting in my ... Read More
The Snake

The Snake

I was a helicopter pilot for the 187th Assault Helicopter Company, in Tay Ninh, 1967, and we were supporting everything from the Special Forces to ... Read More
Hey Tonto

Hey Tonto

"Hey Tonto", came the cry.  Looking up from the paper I was reading while sipping a beer in a popular outdoor cafe on a busy ... Read More
Asshole

Asshole

"Asshole" I muttered under my breath. "Who are you calling an Asshole?" My peter pilot/student, a new El Tee to the 187th Assault Helicopter Company ... Read More
TINS B-57

TINS B-57

Flight,

I started looking for some artwork buried in my pile of Viet Nam shit, and came across a letter from Martin Jansen when it dropped ... Read More
Medevac with Jimmy Ballard

Medevac with Jimmy Ballard

Flight,

Last night, I spent about two hours on the telephone with Jimmy Ballard.

Jimmy and I used to fly quite often together. Jimmy Ballard is one ... Read More
My Trip to the Wall

My Trip to the Wall

Hi Frank, and Flight!

I am back from the wall now...and feeling much more "at home" after the last weeks hecticness upon returning!

Frank, the wall was ... Read More
Vertigo

Vertigo

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 ... Read More
Thu Douc

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 ... Read More
Rock and Doc

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 ... Read More
Graves Registration

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 ... Read More
Thanksgiving 1968

Thanksgiving 1968

Veterans of the 187th AHC, I was just made aware of your site a few days ago. My father SSG James Tilton was a squad ... Read More
Rifle with a Wreath

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 ... Read More
Terminology of a Slope Landing

Terminology of a Slope Landing

I just returned from an early morning "scene" call and not being able to
go to sleep, thought I might pass on a "flash back" I ... Read More
Operations Report 681127

Operations Report 681127


187 AHC was a US Army unit
3 BDE 25 INF was a US Army unit
4/9 INF was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US ... Read More