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Old 05-28-2017, 08:01 PM   #1
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to all of you who have served

to all of you who have served, I thank you for that service. That service affords all of us the freedoms we enjoy.
thank you. Bruce
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Old 05-28-2017, 09:02 PM   #2
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Agreed.
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Old 05-28-2017, 09:05 PM   #3
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Double agreed...
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Old 05-28-2017, 10:57 PM   #4
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Col Coltman and Capt Brett are just two of the 12 names of KIA F111A aircrew to be added to our memorial USAF truck. We all were there i and i was lucky to come back. Link also show pics of them being found 30 years later.

http://www.f-111.net/combat/ranger23.htm

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Old 05-28-2017, 11:25 PM   #5
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Old 05-29-2017, 03:48 PM   #7
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Agree also
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Old 05-29-2017, 04:21 PM   #8
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Plus 55 That !

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Old 05-31-2017, 02:22 PM   #9
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John Harlan Sweet, James Owens, Ralph Mears, Patrick Ward, Pablo Garza and 58,000 others paid the ultimate price.
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Remember Memorial day is to honor those we lost and Veterans day is to honor those of us who are still alive.
This is me in 1968, my buddy who took the photo is on the wall. He died when a hand grenade blew up in the helicopter he was flying gunner in. I would have been flying observer in the same bird that day but I had KP and our Platoon Sergent was in the left front seat that day. He lived as did the pilot and neither had serious injuries.
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Remember Memorial day is to honor those we lost and Veterans day is to honor those of us who are still alive.
This is me in 1968, my buddy who took the photo is on the wall. He died when a hand grenade blew up in the helicopter he was flying gunner in. I would have been flying observer in the same bird that day but I had KP and our Platoon Sergent was in the left front seat that day. He lived as did the pilot and neither had serious injuries.

Still have Have a pair of those same rip stop fatigues (and jungle boots). Many of my buddies died in 1973 many others have passed from age and AO complications.
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Since we are going down memory lane here I am in 1969. The pic will probably be upside down. My wife put the "shrine" together for my birthday.
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Yup upside down like half of mine. Huey drivers have a special place in my respect file. Thanks!!


Fwiw my medals include a wax "cointreau" emblems affixed to my jungle boots.
Only a few vets will remeber and understand.
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I ended hanging upside down in one once when we got our tail rotor driveshaft shot in two. Took a few hits, all the gauges of importance read good and we flew a few more miles and were slowed down to look at a hooch in the forest when the bird went into a spin an down in the trees. They dropped a rope from a Huey and all three of us were lifted out at one time with the pilot sitting on my head. He by the way was the last pilot I flew a mission with several months later when we came back from a mission with tree branches in the skids from flying through a tree rather than over it an I was standing on the flightline shaking after we got back and the 6 walked up and asked me what was wrong an I pointed to the branches and he grounded me. Walked away from two crashes and didn't want to go for a third.
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