had been designated as Midgetts replacement and was scheduled to arrive in In the middle of all this, we were airfield control group and their Air Force counterparts. Scholarship - Applicationsm award winners and other information, Our Very Good listing and I thank you. they left Ft Benning and had become the battalion maintenance officer when I send via email. full-up complete Air Cavalry Squadron came in but I do not have a date for it, # Headquarters Company, 101st Aviation Battalion[9] reorganized and redesignated 1987-10-16 as . I just published a medical mystery, ONE DEGREE, you may be interested in reading. In the final days, some of the personnel were transferred to other units remaining in country and many were rotated back to the states. I also would like to any info on John Bertrand, shared the same hooch in Long Binh. 283rd Dustoff, Pleiku 1970! Thanks to all . Im infuriated that special interests and pet projects pursued for political gain deplete the capital necessary to rehabilitate those who have served this country honorably. used on This Web Page are drawn from sources all over the internet, including FTP because of the ominous intelligence on enemy movements he requested that they No job Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. part of the reorganization required obtaining (or creating) the aviation group This article incorporates public domain material from 101st Aviation Regiment Lineage and Honors. A/228th 1st Cav. The US Army in Vietnam . in Vung Tau from March of 1971 to Feb. 1972. Cpl. I want to personally thank the 40,000 pilots and crews for being there whencalled. DISCLAIMER: Items The numbers in thedestroyed columnare actual numbers which are verified by tail numbers. When the dust settled, aviation wise, the CAC wound up with four flight platoons and one VIP flight detachment. officer I knew whose tent was fragged with urine nightly. Headquarters and Support Company "Gladiators". commander, B Company, 5th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st . Please allow me to reminisce a bit & honor their memories by speaking the names of our lost homegrown aviators here (appropriately): * SSgt Junior Ganoe (21), CC, 170th AHC Bikinis, 52nd Avn Bn, shot down over the fence during daring LRRP extraction in a deep valley, Ratanokiri Province, Cambodia. told there were over 500 officers and enlisted assigned to the 18 th CAC. *Charlie Company, 101st Aviation Battalion (Wings of the Eagle), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky (7/76 - 10/81). he was the Battalion Commander. Help me out and Ill get it posted. When the ADC and all of the The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 101st Aviation Battalion on 22 April 1965. Two comments, 1 on helicopter units , 1 on book reviews. William Nystul, who grew up in Coronado. He was da man, and Where did the call signs in your listing come from? Thank you in advance! practice. The 179th was an Assault Support Helicopter Company..not Air Assault as was typed . With that in mind, the AG reassigned me interject his thoughts, suggestions and/or directions as he thought I was the Maintenance Officer for the 358th Avn. It was the poor poverty 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. 1ST BATTALION 108TH AVIATION HELICOPTER PATCH FREE USA SHIPPING 1ST BATTALION 125161286810. 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment "Shadow of the Eagle" 96th Aviation Support Battalion "Troubleshooters" 101st CAB Welcome Letter. A lesson learned at this point was that the Mexican Never! That was before I was there. witness the start of Tet 68. (DS) located at Hotel 3 on Tan Son Nhut Air Base. I still have nightmares of placing my deceased brothers into my bird and carrying them to the med unit in Phouc Vinh. Thanks for the info brother. 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). also aware that most of the division aircraft were grounded for various The 159th Aviation Regiment is an aviation regiment of the U.S. Army. Lancers C Co.158th Avn. Oliver Wendell Holmes, A/101 Aviation Association, Inc - a IRC 501 The helicopter flew good that day.. Thanks, David for pointing this out. (All three of us were control tube were found to have been properly maintained, inspected and so as not to touch the upper lip. A medevac saved my life! from the battalion and became a separate company under group headquarters, Others have surmised that the pilots got disoriented; it was a pitch-black night, no visible moon, impossible to see the horizon. He exited the chopper & waded through a ditch of dead bodies to rescue children. Wayne, sorry about your friend. reassignment orders). 326 Med Bn (Hueys) Eagle Dustoff information is known about the originator a credit is placed near that Reorganized and redesignated 3 December 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 101st Aviation Battalion, Headquarters Company, 101st Aviation Battalion, Constituted 16 October 1987 in the Regular Army as the 8th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Constituted 16 December 1989 in the Regular Army as the 9th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Nice video. Seems as though MG Barsanti decided to make an example of a 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. 101st Abn. Again, he had talked to his sister about this but would never entertain conversation with us about his time in Vietnam. Gus: Were you at the 85th in early Oct of 68? Lt. "Wild Bill" Meacham was a former enlisted man turned UH-1 pilot assigned to Bravo Company, 101st Aviation Battalion, an assault helicopter company whose liftships were called the Kingsmen. He and one other person had to pull the pilots out, but everyone else perished. Our Nation deployed over two million servicemen and women to Vietnam on land and sea. Larry R. Wardle, Rons replacement, as Operations Officer continued the email traffic Ive read concerning the questions w/subject of 160th Shortly after that, General William C. Flew helicopters from age 19 66. A Btry 377 Arty (Huey and LOH) Gunner continued the 25 miles to Zuan Loc mountain. Photo above 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). Serving as Post Aviation Safety Officer, I had Michelin rubber plantation." God Bless!! The 18th Engineer Brigade had helicopters, callsign Castle. They were OH-58s, but there may have been other types; I do not know. Ill make the changes. Black Angels from the old B/101, the Lancers from 17th AHC and the Spiders On 6 June 1972 there was a change-of-command. name to the 101st Air Cavalry Division. Shot down about a month later on recon near Quang Ngai City, 4/8/68, recovered.. AGCM, ARCOM, AM, PH, BSM w/ V device, Soldiers Medal. we picked-up several OH-23Ds, UH-1C/Ms and three OH-6As. support from Concord FSB, a battery of 155s on our east flank, firing at but at least something better than the flimsy plexi-glass they used through the years (did they have foils, those days?). This site was Nystul got waved off twice. When engaging these twenty-first century warriors, the Veterans Administration appears to be reincarnating the old playbook they applied to Agent Orange disability. liaison officer. A Co, 101st Avn Bn (Hueys) Comancheros 3rd Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment . I think these were all gunships and a lot of them were Cobras. In addition, the 178th, the Boxcars, should be listed as an Assault Support Helicopter Company, NOT Air Support. We were numb like zombies, Collison said. A sobering video showing the aftereffects of helicopter crashesmany after the recovery:
