WOW, that Chinook could possibly be from my unit!

86 for me and I learned early on the only ones worth listening to were the old soldiers who had seen the elephant. They may not have been the most squared away in spit and polish but they were where it really mattered.

Delta Company, 2nd Platoon, 3/506, 101st ABN , 1970-71 , 11B

A thank you to the members that served in nam. Thank you!

My uncle and a former lineman teacher of mine, are the 2 nam vets that helped me more than they'll ever possibly know. Uncle Billy passed on years back. But I had the chance to tell him thank you before he left.
My other teacher is still around and still raising cane... lol

Thanks to all the vets !!

My Grandpa was is a Vietnam Vet, he was a helicopter mechanic/fort guard in the 1st infantry Calvary. I am pretty sure that he was in the same division showed above,(the coat of arms looks like his). He was in there for about a year before he was shipped out.

There is more that he told me but I don't remember all of it.

Old age ,.youth slipped away so fast and now we have a country that is being taken over from within ,Veterans and seniors are being left behind If I could do it all again I would and maybe we will have to shortly only this time I wont be coming home ,

I did serve over there the whole year of 1967. My brother was there in Jamuary of 1969 and got hit twice and sent to Japan then home.

My brother-in-law (who recently passed) spent 18 months as cannon cocker. He told me of once going out to an LZ in a Chinook and coming in for a landing.

All of a sudden the chopper drops about 50 ft. to the ground. He was knocked out. Waking up to being outside on the ground and looking at the Chinook with no front prop.

His question was, how did I get out here? Apparently an RPG was used to down the chopper. He was one of the few who survived that day.

I have pictures on a DVD showing the wreckage. Nasty.