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War in itself is never ever funny. There is however a survival need both mentally and physically to find laughter where you can. Escaping ... Read More

Webmasters Note: There have been many post to the VHFCN network concerning the battle at Lam Son also know as Lam Son 719. Much of ... Read More

Reading some of the recent posts made me think of one of the dumber things we used to do - Quick Draw. I don't remember ... Read More

Flight; The posts about the Valley Forge bring back other memories. It was early in 69 (Some time in Jan.) The New Jersey was off ... Read More

Flight, Thought I'd share some thoughts I've had today. I was driving through town a while ago and looked over to our little town's VN ... Read More

I know it was some time in the Spring of 68 (maybe March or April), because I was still attached to Special Landing Force Bravo, ... Read More

Hey, folks, I'm back from my trip to Wash. D.C. My surgery didn't go nearly as well as I'd hoped it would, but I'll live ... Read More

During late 1964, while I was assigned to HMM-263, a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron based out of Marine Corps Air Facility New River, in North ... Read More

At the urging of several VHFCN ( Vietnam Helicopter Flight Crew Network) members, I've been asked to write about some of my experiences during my ... Read More

I was somewhere between drowsiness and sleep, gazing at the prismatic colors of sunlight flooding through the weave of a soaked boonie hat draped over ... Read More

Flying for the Special Forces was part of my every day life. Some of the Pilots in my unit, the 187th Assault Helicopter Company, were ... Read More

Here is a story about Sam Bose. Chief Warrant Officer Sam Bose lived in the tent next to mine. When the 187th Assault Helicopter Company ... Read More

Doc Warden kept a journal of his tour in Vietnam. This is a story out of that journal. I do not have the names of ... Read More

Here is a story I wrote some time ago. The 2/22 was the unit that was hit and Frenchy Gibeault put me in touch with ... Read More

I was a Jack Ruby fan from the first moment I met him in flight school. Jack was a short elf of a man with ... Read More

Michelin rubber plantation, close to Nui Ba Dinh the
Black Virgin Mountain. Tay Ninh, Vietnam 1967. The Blackhawks were the best Assault Helicopter Company in South ... Read More

I love mornings in Vietnam, cool and still, well except for the 155's shooting H&I. Harassment and Interdiction, turned into Landing Zone prep. Today we ... Read More

I was flying a UH-1 D for the Blackhawks out of Tay Ninh, Vietnam in 1967. Sleep never comes easy in Vietnam, the artillery shoots ... Read More