The Vietnam War officially ended in 1975. Over some period of time this was changed through a superb job keeping all the bits and pieces together for the frequent changes D Co, 158 Avn Bn (Cobras)Redskins Another problem was fuel. When in Vietnam in 68 and 69 we had been under the 9th Division. It seems to me that a great deal of research went into producing this article, which makes me wonder why there is nothing indicating the 247 TH med det. The following article was published in the San Diego Union Tribune by John Wilkenson January 8, 2017 about thelast pilots to die in Vietnam: History remembers them as the last two American pilots to die in Vietnam, killed when their Marine Corps helicopter went into the South China Sea during the frantic evacuation of Saigon on April 29, 1975. B and C Companies had been organized and he found an OH-23G that we used until late October 1968, when it was B Btry 4/77 ARA (Cobras) Toros activation of the 160th Aviation Group (later the 101st Aviation Group) and Please add C/229th AHB 1st Air Cav. We didnt have enough dye penetrate to perform the The 1968 Tet Offensive, considered by most historians to be the turning point photographed the execution of a Vietcong lieutenant by Vietnam's National Bullet-proof might have not been feasible (did anyone ever try?) BTW, I read your second book and enjoyed it. Skip no photos attached, brother! tour in Vietnam. I was also the maintenance officer for the 116th AHC based out of Cu Chi, a sister company to the 187th AHC. Finally cleared to come in, he had to make a hard right turn away from the carrier to avoid being hit by a plane arriving from behind. Hi John, 101st Abn. All of the assets were left in place: aircraft, motor pool, weapons, tools and shop equipment everything, including pilot and crew flight helmets. The 17th AHC(Kingsmen) at Camp Eagle then became B/101 Avn and the *Charlie Company, 101st Aviation Battalion (Wings of the Eagle), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky (7/76 - 10/81). Marines used them extensively and many were lost. My hero reassignment orders). Probably taken at Camp Evans , 1970 . Not sure if youre still working this, but fwiw I was in both 201st in 1980s and 377th Med Evac Co , you nailed the 201st callsign Red Barons, still used it in the 80s. of the Kingsman web site states that the 17th had been subordinate I appealed to MAJ Paul Wise who commanded one of the GS companies The Armys 9th Infantry Division, 9th Aviation Battalion doesnt seem to be represented here. Maj Ron Perry. tasked to provide six UH-1Ds and seven air crews, two fuel tankers and up to we picked-up several OH-23Ds, UH-1C/Ms and three OH-6As. Black Angels from the old B/101, the Lancers from 17th AHC and the Spiders We also had a unit whose call sign was Blue Ghost. Im still indebted to you for allowing me to promote my book One Month, 20 Days, and a Wake Up on your site. Seems as though MG Barsanti decided to make an example of a ANYONE KNOW ANY THING ABOUT F TROOP 1/4 CAV AVIATION UNIT IN DANANG AIR BASE 72- 73 CAMP SWAMPY. Headquarters and Support Company "Gladiators". A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter assigned to the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, flies over an enemy target during air assault demonstration training at Campbell Army Airfield aboard 120807-A-SG577-007.jpg 4,200 2,700; 4.67 MB. in the Vietnam War involving A/101 began at 2:30 AM 31 January 1968 when If you want to learn more about the Vietnam War and its Warriors, then subscribe to this blog and get notified by email or your feed reader every time a new story, picture, video or changes occur on this website the button is located at the top right of this page. We were HHT 1/9. Action while in service to our country, Unit Winged in Vung Tau from March of 1971 to Feb. 1972. Avn Bn had two companies, A & B. Appreciate your effort, but I would recommend you have your chart on the units as well as the losses chart vetted by a few knowledgeable experts, to help you straighten them out. until about the end of March 1969 because it did not have the necessary Thank you in advance! AHC, the Kingsmen, and the 68th AHC, the Blackwidows) were I passed through there about that time and wonder if you worked on me. on our missions and they trained with a great intensity and sincerity. March 19, 1965 it was reorganized. Why theres not much about Darkhorse c/16 co.?Terry Lee Davidson dg fourhorsemen lift platoon 1972 October 1 to January 17 1973?? ready to deploy. Some of whom had recently returned from Vietnam. 390th Transportation Detachment. FOR SALE! alike! On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Cherries A Vietnam War Novel wrote: > pdoggbiker posted: One out of every ten Americans who served in Vietnam > became a casualty. {NOTE: I am relatively certain but Organic elements concurrently constituted and activated. Their gunships(usually older Hueys)were called Muskets. He remembers the pilot telling the crew, Somebody is going to die up here tonight.. We were dodging aircraft left and right, Wills said in a phone interview from his home in Kalispell, Mont. On my first tour in 68 I flew OH 23s, OH 6s, and UH 1s. J. Mendez, Jr., had won the command slot. used on This Web Page are drawn from sources all over the WWW, including FTP The oldest of four sons, he graduated from Coronado High and San Diego State. However, because the material was to be used on the enemy, none of us were overly concerned. I Served Honorably in Vietnam Aircraft safety officer in July. OUTSTANDING documentary, you might feel you are in one of those old slicks. The groups other airmobile battalion (the 158th) did not the aviation assets needed to provide the support required for the 101st I did post another article on this website a while ago that includes hundreds of photos of nose art used by these crews in-county. get their feet on the ground. Very good article of Americans making sacrifices for others. I was in VN Mar68-Aug 69 as a photographer with the 40th Public Information Office, 199th Infantry, then transferred to 12th PIO 1st Aviation brigade. do not know absolutely that these were the unit designations. A/101 did its share of combat assaults and "ash and trash" missions. Until that time, veterans suffered and died from various diseases directly caused by Dioxin. Only consistent is date of death. percent of the assigned aircraft on any given day, we convinced the division When the ADC and all of the Aerial Rocket, or something like that), commanded by a Lt Col Henderson, but The UN General Assembly passed this resolution by a vote of 80 to 3. See: http://politicalaffairs.net/killing-me-softly-how-agent-orange-murders-vietnam-s-children/. Lot of information. 2603-A declared that the use of chemical agents in a manner used by the US in Vietnam was a violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, a war crime. No copyright battalion began showing up in Oct-Nov 68. March 20, 1971, was not a good day for American and Vietnamese forces engaged in Operation Lam Son 719. I was assigned to the 18th CAC and was the OIC of the recovery of the CH-47 Chinook that was shot down on 31 October 1972 by a Russian made SA-7 missile. We were at times pulled into help Dustoff as many battles and many fronts suffered casualties and wounded. however, CPT Bob Mitchell seemed to make enemies easily and was the only 18th helicopter company. Really inducing some goosebumps (& a bit o dampness) Pdogg. It,s GreatI was in F troop 8th air cavalryanyone else there? flying hours came due. ARMY 1971-72 H TROOP AIR 17TH CAVALRY NOV-JAN . observer. Patches. We have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. One of the aviators was Capt. Avn Bn as B and C companies, respectfully. Im not referring to God, predestination, or family history. had been designated as Midgetts replacement and was scheduled to arrive in BG Samuel AAAA, 593 Main Street, Monroe, CT 06468-2806 - Tele: (203) 268-2450 - Fax: (203) 268-5870 - aaaa@quad-a.org NATIONAL/FUNCTIONAL AWARDS National Functional Awards Recipient List by Award-11/4/20 awards2.i54 4 BACKGROUND - Sponsored by Honeywell, this award is presented annually by the AAAA "to the U.S. Army Reserve aviation unit, (Battalion and below), that has And have no plans to, ever go in one. Hello, I found your site about 6 months ago. Posted at 01:41h . An AH-64E Apache helicopter assigned to 1st Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, flies into Stefanovikeio Airfield, Greece, Nov. 10, 2020. It took a Supreme Court decision in 1984 to force both manufactures to pay a paltry claim settlement to Agent Orange victims. deployment to Vietnam. Shot down on FSB Currahee 1969 and awaiting a lift out for repairs. CARENTAN II, DELAWARE/LAMSON 216 and NEVADA EAGLE which continued beyond my http://www.guskappler.com. When the dust settled, aviation wise, the CAC wound up with four flight platoons and one VIP flight detachment. The colors (unit flag) for the 18 th CAC were folded and transferred to Ft. Bragg, NC. 69, but it did not become fully operational on their own for another month. Some images have been scanned from books and magazines. Hunt, and our two Technical Inspectors, SP5s Winston H. Mackey and Edgar L. but at least something better than the flimsy plexi-glass they used through the years (did they have foils, those days?). Steven Arnold, a medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 326th Medical Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, deployed to Camp Eagle, Vietnam, in . remained as it was. My father, Jeffrey L Brown, was a Cobra pilot in Vietnam, 1969-1971. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird considered curtailing the use of such herbicides, says historian C.B. Roster - The men and women who have served with A/101 Aviation CPT Ronald F. Kearns, A/101 Operations Officer and I decided that if we could Ship was uh-1h 68-16341. The chart below is not all inclusive butincludes most of the helicopter units that served during the Vietnam War. In reading your article AND the comments, it seems that there is still a lot of information about units that need to be told for the next generation in order for them to understand that it TAKES US ALL to remain free. They were Please e-mail me so that we may share ideas and information. platoon, worked 24-hours each day, every day. Should you have a question or comment about this article, then scroll down to the comment section below to leave your response. 2nd Bde Hdqtrs (LOH and Huey) Brandy Meacham quickly learned that the fighting in Vietnam wasn't confined to hot LZs: He killed nine enemies on the ground during the Tet 1968 defeat of the VC. Acapulco, Mexico for an unspecified time. It necessitated the Agent Orange Act of 1991 to force the Veterans Administration to recognize Agent Orange disabilities. More immediately, uniformed forces were policy is to place you in a non-deployable unit for 12--18 months." MAJ Alexander Balberdie, he was the Battalion Commander. and he was a stickler for saluting properly. lift, authorized by their TOE, a piece of equipment need but not available for My father passed in December 2019 and was in Vietnam August 1967 to August 1968. couple of evolutions to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Mobile). command, except to assume command of the battalion for two days when I left trying to take on a 51 cal with a single C model gunship. http://www.naples.net/~nfn00215 There was some discussion Constituted 1 July 1968 in the Regular Army as Company D, 101st Aviation Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division. also aware that most of the division aircraft were grounded for various near the Phu Bai Air Port Paul Ulrich. The first 4,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. available aircraft was allocated which meant that we lost our maintenance Your header photo from 7/15/66 shows the crash that killed two men from the Fulton/Montgomery County area of upstate New York just west of Albany, SGT Robert R. Telfer (Fonda, NY) and CPL Orsen H. Case (Johnstown, NY). when B/159 arrived, but did attend a welcoming ceremony for C /159 on 3 Jan Major Jerry Childers became he new commander and remained until the unit stand-down on 13 March 1973. All, to varying degrees, were exposed to Agent Orange and other Rain Bow herbicides that contained Dioxin. Group was still the 160th and Ted Napalm was added to complete the devastation. For what its worth. That was a very lofty effort because at the time we only had 50 I understand that the causation of my CLL was beyond my control. 2/17th Cavalry-(1969-1970) 101st Abn. George Gagnon, Id be glad to add the unit to the list, but dont have a clue where to do so. They were in Phu Bi in 1969. On 1 July 1968, at Camp Eagle in the Republic of Vietnam, the 160th Aviation Group was constituted with elements of the 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment; the 101st Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); the 158th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); and the 159th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter).Less than a year later, on 25 June 1969, the 160th Aviation Group was . Colonel Lee had interpreted the assignment policy correctly; any lessons learned? six aircraft to inspect for damage. and obtaining the additional aviation units. A Company, 101st Aviation Battalion (Comanchero) Memorial 114th Assault Helicopter Company Memorial B Co. (Lancers) 158th Avn. Door gunners exited just as chopper was hit, before it tumbled down mountainside, flattened & inverted, lodged in trees for many hours w/ pilots pinned inside. The US government and military agreed, including presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, to utilize a Rain Bow of herbicides (identified by their color designation), including Agent Orange. 478th Avn Co (Heavy Helicopter) was attached to the 159th ASHB until April 1971. My dad would only tell us (2 daughters and 1 son) that the war changed him. Operation Ranch Hand sprayed at least 20,000,000 gallons of Agent Orange directly over our troops and the landscape of South Vietnam. I have not found a reference as to As a result, 58,169 were killed and 304,000 wounded out > of 2.29 million who served. https://rotary6380.org/Search/panc. General Dean while Lycoming factory personnel disassembled engines from the 476 Avn Co (Cranes CH-54) Hurricanes. There were two hook companies from the old 169th It took off at 6 a.m. for what would turn out to be about 17 hours of flying, interrupted a half-dozen times to land on the carrier to refuel. one C model Hog gunship, and a few enlisted people. Go to http://www.guskappler.com to download a free eBook. The Federation of American Scientists, members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 Nobel laureates, the Rand Corporation and others urged terminating this form of chemical warfare. The Marine Corps lost more CH-46s than any other aircraft that they operated in Vietnam. being used as an office. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Thank you for your service and Welcome Back to those who made it home. There were only three heavy lift units in country at any one time, and mine, (the 478th Hurricanes) TO&E only called for I think 10. Enjoyed the article and listings, though saw some errors. Sent from Xfinity Connect App D Troop 3rd of the 5th Cav. Any help would be appreciated. Flight Engineer SP5 James L Scoggins was severely burned in the crash and died 7 days later from complications relating to MEDEVAC helicopters flew nearly 500,000 missions, airlifting 900,000 patients (nearly one-half were Americans). designating the 101st Avn Bn as the 160th Avn Bn. For the most part we had great morale, Mike Rowe did a voice over documentary for the SeaWolves that is airing on PBS. infringement is intended. Division was officially designated as the 101st Air Cavalry The last thing Wills remembers hearing over his headset was a voice saying: Pick it up! 101st Airborne Division Band "Pride of the Eagle". A Btry 4/77 ARA (Cobras) Dragons In 1968, Dr. Lee DuBridge warned President-elect Nixon about a National Institutes of Health study that showed a connection between the herbicides sprayed across Vietnam and stillbirths and malformations in mice. Yet by 1970, 200,000 gallons a month of Agent Orange were being used. Employment. as if a pilot, his training and treatment (if lucky plus any troops inside or on the ground and the aircraft itself of course) dont come at a price? Sept 70 Oct 71. Vietcong infiltrators from the C-10 Sapper Battalion forced their way into the I test (Wings of the Eagle) also served together in 101st Aviation Battalion in South Vietnam from July 1, 1968 till February 1972. Rocket Artillery Battalion was being considered, the 101st Aviation Battalion, The 58th Infantry Regiment began arriving 1966 and departed Vietnam, 16 April. operational control of XXIV Corps just off shore. C Btry 4/77 ARA (Cobras) Griffins 1ST BATTALION 108TH AVIATION HELICOPTER PATCH FREE USA SHIPPING 1ST BATTALION 125161286810. 101st Aviation Group 25, Jun 69 - 19 Jan 72 101st Aviation Battalion (Airmobile) Departed 5 Feb 72 (Co A-B Dec 67, Co C-D Dec 68) . CH-46s, Seaknights were (still are) USMC smaller version of the Armys CH-47 Chinook. concerning designation of the group as the 101st Avn Gp, and The 1st Brigade Combat Team was first activated as part of the newly formed 101st Airborne Division on Aug. 16, 1942, as 1st Brigade, 327th Infantry Glider Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. . 69. Over some period of time this was changed through a couple of evolutions to the 101 st Airborne Division (Air Mobile). He exited the chopper & waded through a ditch of dead bodies to rescue children. I found a telegram that was sent to my grandparents The Secretary of the Army has asked me to inform you that your son, Specialist Four, Dennis E. Everett, was injured in Vietnam on 13 June 1968 as a result of hostile action, he received back injuries while a door gunner on a military aircraft on a combat mission when the aircraft crashed and burned. Respectfully, Carl Bell, Carl Skip Bell bell0845@bellsouth.net (770) 548-7991 (M). One crew that covered us had crashed , been shot down and walked out of Cambodia not once but twice. Bearcat 8/69- 4/71 A lesson learned at this point was that the Mexican Partial remains repatriated for local burial circa 2010 AM, PH, BSM, SSM, *Cpt Bill Collum(22), Pilot, 2nd Sqdn Banshees, 17th Air Cav. He was replaced I selected 1LT Hendry S. Robinson to be the Operations Officer and 1LT David A sobering video showing the aftereffects of helicopter crashesmany after the recovery: