Nothing will ever equal her record and patriotism
Aug 12, 2020 10:42:18 #
Aug 12, 2020 10:48:52 #
Huey Driver wrote:
Nothing will ever equal her record and patriotism
Don't know about the "patriotism", but you know as well as anybody,
the little guys in black pyjamas were shit scared of Australians,
but handed you guys your arses on a platter.
By the way, you ever meet Bob Mason, a slick driver?
Aug 12, 2020 10:55:10 #
Aug 12, 2020 11:01:14 #
Aug 12, 2020 11:03:07 #
Abo wrote:
Don't know about the "patriotism", but you know as well as anybody,
the little guys in black pyjamas were shit scared of Australians,
but handed you guys your arses on a platter.
By the way, you ever meet Bob Mason, a slick driver?
the little guys in black pyjamas were shit scared of Australians,
but handed you guys your arses on a platter.
By the way, you ever meet Bob Mason, a slick driver?
The little guys in black pajamas were not nearly as afraid of the Australians as they were there only indigenous people called Montagnards. And I'm not exactly sure what you mean by our asses on a platter? I never knew Bob Mason.
Aug 12, 2020 11:56:17 #
Aug 12, 2020 12:00:28 #
Aug 12, 2020 14:41:06 #
Are you a member of the huey association? The sound is burned in to my brain.
Aug 12, 2020 16:33:46 #
Whop whop whop best sound you could ever hear. One other unique sound is a Buff leaving an area with an empty belly, "means someone is about to meet their ancestors.
Aug 12, 2020 16:48:39 #
You will never forget that sound. And many times it was the most wonderful sound in the world!!
Aug 12, 2020 17:22:57 #
Shipwreck wrote:
Are you a member of the huey association? The sound is burned in to my brain.
Not familiar with the Huey Association. I am a life member of the VHPA.
Aug 12, 2020 23:09:00 #
I had numerous one way Huey trips on combat assault's, one horizontal trip on a dustoff after an encounter with an AK round. After recovering I got to run our chopper pad in Cu Chi Vietnam, some other Huey drivers were brave enough to give me some stick, pedal and collective time. Brave may not have been the correct term for what they did.
Aug 13, 2020 00:17:53 #
Huey Driver wrote:
The little guys in black pajamas were not nearly as afraid of the Australians as they were there only indigenous people called Montagnards. And I'm not exactly sure what you mean by our asses on a platter? I never knew Bob Mason.
That's funny, as the VC and NVA, superstitious little buggers they were,
thought that the men they lost to some Australians were taken by "ghosts".
So what you say, depends on which Australians you/we are talking about.
Fortunately I signed up after all our guys were bought home.
My entire platoon was trained by two SAS corporals who'd taken down
more little black pyjama men than you've had roast pototoes.
Aug 13, 2020 01:21:17 #
No doubt that the whop, whop, whop of the Huey is iconic to the Vietnam Veteran, however, the big ol' ugly C-130 (Herky) played as big a roll in Vietnam as any aircraft and is still the work horse of the US military. "We did so much with so little that we can now do anything with nothing".
Aug 13, 2020 09:05:08 #
Yes, then we have Puff and Spooky I worked with them quite a bit, they were always so polite, "May we be of assistance?"
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