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Originally Posted by rspears

I was never in country, but was in the Navy from '68 to '72 at the pilot training base in Corpus Christi working on radial recip engines. There was a big civilian ARADMAC operaton on post where they rebuilt Huey's and Cobras, and things became more focused for me in '71 when I saw a Huey go by on a truck, just the burned out shell, and a 'What? Me Worry' Wiley Coyote nose art. I had seen that Huey in a magazine a just few months earlier with the crew posing beside their plane.

The UH-1D ( I think it was a "D") used to fold up like a book when hit in the boom with a RPG,...... Some of those egg beaters would burn down to nothing the fire was so hot,.. I was told they had magnesium air frames ?

Headquarters SAC DOCDC/55th Strat Recon Wing .......... EC-135A "Looking Glass" Airborne Command Post computer operations ............. four TDY trips to beautiful Southeast Asia 1968-1971 ............ MACV, Da Nang, Takhli, Nakom Phanom ............ belonging to SAC DO, we were responsible for the creation and delivery of the SIOP (Single Integrated Operational Plan) ............. our bird, tail number 23583, the ADA bird (Airborne Data Automation) .......... we were testing the new SAC real time system

I was an instant winner in the '69 draft lottery. I was assigned to the 1/46th Inf, 196th LIB, in VN from 07/70 to 07/71. I was a regular infantry soldier. I retired from the Army in 2001.

Originally Posted by 36tudoor

I was an instant winner in the '69 draft lottery. I was assigned to the 1/46th Inf, 196th LIB, in VN from 07/70 to 07/71. I was a regular infantry soldier. I retired from the Army in 2001.

Hey we was in country the same time. 5/42 FA B-Btry, 2nd Field Force.