Rayl
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Thank you all for your service. It is a real pleasure having other vets on the forum.
I dodged the draft ---and joined the Army right out of high school. Aug 1969--Jun1973
Basic in Ft Polk--then warrant officer helicopter flight schools at Ft Wolters Tx and Ft Rucker Alabama. In Vietnam I was with the 101st Airborne flying UH-1H out of Camp Evans -mostly combat assaults. Except for that day we did an ash and trash phyops mission telling our Asia brothers to give up and come to our side. That's when the engine quit! Our auto rotation terminated with a hard landing into a centuries old Vietnamese cemetery. Six months later another Huey puked the turbine out the exhaust along with 25 feet of flame (that was told to me by a ground witness--the one I saw hauling ass for cover away from the landing zone.
After that I took up flying the Hughes OH-6A on a scout team.
Finished my service in Ft Hood Tx flying the first Quick Fix heli's (electronic warfare)
I dodged the draft ---and joined the Army right out of high school. Aug 1969--Jun1973
Basic in Ft Polk--then warrant officer helicopter flight schools at Ft Wolters Tx and Ft Rucker Alabama. In Vietnam I was with the 101st Airborne flying UH-1H out of Camp Evans -mostly combat assaults. Except for that day we did an ash and trash phyops mission telling our Asia brothers to give up and come to our side. That's when the engine quit! Our auto rotation terminated with a hard landing into a centuries old Vietnamese cemetery. Six months later another Huey puked the turbine out the exhaust along with 25 feet of flame (that was told to me by a ground witness--the one I saw hauling ass for cover away from the landing zone.
After that I took up flying the Hughes OH-6A on a scout team.
Finished my service in Ft Hood Tx flying the first Quick Fix heli's (electronic warfare)