The United States Military did not lose the war in Vietnam.\u00a0 We were not allowed to win but we did not lose.
\nThe American fighting force left Vietnam in 1972.\u00a0 We did not leave because we were losing in Vietnam by any stretch of the imagination.\u00a0 If we lost anything it was the support of the United States Government that sent us over there and the United States civilians who sat securely at home in a “Free Country” cursing the American fighting force.\u00a0 Cursing the very people that would be the first to die to protect their freedom and their right to act like morons.\u00a0 To all of you who hid in colleges and ran to Canada, you will never understand what it means to be a winner in the defense of our country, our freedoms, our way of life.\u00a0 You will never know what true honor and courage is or understand why we offered our lives for what we believe in.<\/p>\n
We were not even in Vietnam in 1975 when the soldiers of the Army of South Vietnam threw down their weapons, stripped off their uniforms and ran from their duty.<\/p>\n
Where were you in 1965 – 1972?\u00a0 I know where the true hero’s of our country were.<\/p>\n
It is not the President or Congress or the fat cat politicians that insure our freedom.\u00a0 It is the American Fighting man and woman that won your freedom to start with and keeps you free today.<\/p>\n
Mike Hodges\u00a0 Rat Pack “38”<\/strong> This site can never be complete until we have the names of every single member of the 187th AHC.\u00a0\u00a0We know there are many more men not listed on our roster and we desperately want to locate them.<\/p>\n If you were with the 187th AHC, please let us know – update the unit databse (link on the right)<\/p>\n From all of us at the 187th AHC to all Veterans that happen across this page.<\/p>\n The Original and true Blackhawks of Vietnam The United States Military did not lose the war in Vietnam.\u00a0 We were not allowed to win but we did not lose. The American fighting force left Vietnam in 1972.\u00a0 We did not leave because we were losing in Vietnam by any stretch of the imagination.\u00a0 If we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orderly-room"],"modified_by":"Webmaster","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSite creator.<\/strong><\/p>\nThis site is dedicated to all the men of the\u00a0Blackhawks,\u00a0Crusaders,
\nRat\u00a0Pack\u00a0and all of the supporting units of the
\n187th\u00a0Assault\u00a0Helicopter\u00a0Company.<\/h3>\n“Welcome Home”
\nThe words heard by so very few of us as we returned from Vietnam to our families, our homes and to the country we loved.\u00a0 The place each and every one of us referred to as …<\/h3>\n” The Real World.”
\nRP “38”<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"