Ok, we've heard from the Squids, The flyboys, the Jarheads, where are the army folks?? Just Kidding, US Army Retired, 83-03. Where are my brothers in arms? And to all those currently serving God Bless and Thank You for your service to our Great Nation.
Where is the Army?
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I do not hang out here in this forum but I am an old soldier. Got out in '83 after 12 years of being a grunt with a shovel and a bag of C-4 AKA Combat Engineer with a secondary MOS as a Construction Surveyor.
Humm, with a name like av8tor, my guess you might be a skid jockey.The Army has more aircraft than the Air Force if you call a helicopter an aircraft.
Humm, with a name like av8tor, my guess you might be a skid jockey.The Army has more aircraft than the Air Force if you call a helicopter an aircraft.
Speaking of those wonderful helicopters, I was in Army Aviation back in '69, when I was stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia. No, I wasn't a flyboy, I was a personnel clerk with an aircraft maintenance battalion headquarters.
Not so fond of choppers, myself. Had a skid splitting hard landing from rotor failure. Fortunately, the pilot was great at autorotation or whatever it is called. Afraid to look down, I looked up to see the rotors bent upwards at what must have been 45 degrees.
We all walked away as the pilot said all landings are just controlled crashes. Not so funny then but I get a chuckle out of it forty+ years later.
We all walked away as the pilot said all landings are just controlled crashes. Not so funny then but I get a chuckle out of it forty+ years later.
I never went up in a chopper. Our unit captain took some of the guys up for a ride, but when it came my turn, I said "no thanks".
The pilot candidates were trained on how to deal with rotor failure. It was called a "dead stick landing". The idea was to come down at a slight angle, so the back of the skids hit the ground first, otherwise the copter might flip on it's nose. That maneuver was practiced a lot and a lot of Hueys ended up in the maintenance hangar for repairs.
When I got to Hunter, U.S. pilots were being trained, but later in '69 -'70, it was South Vietnamese pilots who were being trained there. They were part of Nixon's Vietnamization of the war, program.
The pilot candidates were trained on how to deal with rotor failure. It was called a "dead stick landing". The idea was to come down at a slight angle, so the back of the skids hit the ground first, otherwise the copter might flip on it's nose. That maneuver was practiced a lot and a lot of Hueys ended up in the maintenance hangar for repairs.
When I got to Hunter, U.S. pilots were being trained, but later in '69 -'70, it was South Vietnamese pilots who were being trained there. They were part of Nixon's Vietnamization of the war, program.
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When I was at Hunter, one poor guy got his brains scrambled, by the tail rotor of a UH-1 Huey. He was reading a newspaper while walking on the flight line and walked right into the spinning tail rotor.No. Those are kitchen utensils for ensuring the eggs are scrambled.
BTW, Hunter Army Airfield was a small base and was the sister base of Ft. Stewart. I believe that it's now being used by the Coast Guard.
Sir,
Not a Heli jockey, Unmanned Air Vehicles but spent many an hour in those things in my day! I am rated though hence the handle!
Combat engineer = grunt who can read, write and do math!!!
I was stationed at Stewart for seven years. 86-93. At the time the 1-75 Ranger Battalion, amongst others, occupied Hunter.
We'd get drunk on River Street and get in fights with Rangers alot. They are tough SOB's...
I flew in a Chinook once and a few Blackhawks, but mainly in the Bradley.
Only thing I really miss is partying on Tybee Island...
Jay
We'd get drunk on River Street and get in fights with Rangers alot. They are tough SOB's...
I flew in a Chinook once and a few Blackhawks, but mainly in the Bradley.
Only thing I really miss is partying on Tybee Island...
Jay
Retired1 sir, they didn't leave the door open, the engineers breached it with a shape charge and we all got in!! For the record I trained VMU1, 2 and 3 how to fly the marines current UAV, spent 3 months at the stumps and 3 months at Cherry point. Semper Fi good sir!
Sir,
Not a Heli jockey, Unmanned Air Vehicles but spent many an hour in those things in my day! I am rated though hence the handle!
Do not call me Sir, I worked for a living.
I went through the single engine fixed wing course at Rucker. Later, they pulled me out of Ft Meade and send me back for the OV-1 Mohawk. That was back in '65. They sent the Mohawks to Viet Nam, and me to Germany.
If someone had asked the question 50 years ago, I could have told them where the Army was.
If someone had asked the question 50 years ago, I could have told them where the Army was.
Fuzzy, (Stanting at Parade Rest) didn't see the stripes on the collar, product of good upbringing. I too worked for a living!!
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