Thank you to all the veterans who made it possible for us to enjoy model T's and all other forms of freedom.
Your Welcome, B company 76 Engineers.... 28th Trans, 4th Trans Group.
Company H, 109th Infantry, 28th Division, 1950-53 active duty and 1953-56 Ready Reserves.
Your welcome, USAF 98th bomb wing SAC 1951-1955 (Korea). "It's been 57 years!!! time goes fast when your having with Family,Model T,s and here on the forum"
Bob
I for got having FUN.
Bob
Thank you appreciated. 45th Artillery Brigade, Illinois, 1957-60.
A son 25 years USMC, retired as Sgt. Major.
?Our family thanks to all military and veterans.
We so support out flag and troops.
Sam-US Army
315th Air Div. USAF (C-130)
Viet Nam 66-67.
2531st Field Maint Sqad./ 516th Tac Combat Sqad. USAF. Homestead AFB Fla./ Kunsan AFB Korea / Elmendorf AFB Alaska / Chanute Field Ill.
John, Your welcome
USN, retired chief aircraft carrier flight deck catapult and arresting gear. 28 years total with reserve.
Thanks to everyone that served!
540 81 74 USN
19 October 1959
19 October 1964
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82nd Air Borne Fort Benning Parachute rigger. 1972-74
Bob McDonald,
"Peace Is Our Profession." (War is only a sideline...
825th Combat Support Group (SAC)
Little Rock AFB
24 July 1963 - 23 July 1967
C Co, 1249th Engineer Bn (CBT) Oregon Army Nat'l Guard 1981-1983
A Co, 5th Engineers (CBT), Ft Leonard Wood, MO 1983-1985
HHC 547th Engineer Bn (CBT) 1985-1988, Darmstadt, West Germany.
Thanks to all of you, past and present.
And you're welcome.
Ordnanceman, Navy 1972-1997
Dick
This is the only part of my uniform that I have left.
Bob
Veterans are never "off topic"....Thank you all!
UH-1H Crewchief
HQ Co 765 Transportation Bat.
Vung Tau Vietnam
70-71
US ARMY 70-76
SP5 Wes Nelson
Proud to be an American.
Thank you to all who served, I salute you.
Those that died, you will always be remembered. Those that are alive, let's have coffee.
Thanks for your thoughts.
US Navy 1978-1998, Chief Fire Controlman, retired.
Remembering shipmates who did not return.
Charlie Battery
Ist Battalion
12th Marine Regiment
3rd Marine Division
Viet Nam 68-69
Thanks for remembering us,
Howard Dennis
My Mrs. is Woman's Army Corps 69-71. One of the rare women of the Viet Nam era who chose 'Dog Tags' over 'Love Beads'.
Thanks,
G Battery 55th Arty Quad 50's Chu lai Viet Nam
C Company 23rd S&T Northern I corp Quang Tri to Khe Sanh Operation Lam Son 719 Republic of South Viet Nam.
B Company 23rd S&T Chu Lai Viet Nam
Thank you and God Bless all our Veterans
My family is so proud of my parents' service. Thank you, Mom and Dad, and all who served to defend our country.
Dad retired rank of major from the Marine Corps. He was a mustang and recon officer; and after the Corps he became a systems engineer/rocket scientist. It took many years for him to soften after leaving the Corps.
Mom was also a Marine, serving in the early 1960s. They met through their Marine brothers and sisters and were married just short of 45 years.
Thank you all for your kind words.
Torpedoman First Class
13 May 68 - 10 June 88
USMC 2000-2005.MALS26 Cryogenic Equipment Operator 6074 New River Air Station Operation Enduring Freedom
5760th Signal Company, Korea, 65-66. Thanks to all the tax payers for a swell vacation.
Steve, you had no hair then either!
To all Veterans of all Era.
On this day thank you all also for all you have done.
"The price of freedom is never free"
**Advisor-82nd ARVN Field Battalion 69-70 Tam Ky **
US Army, VII Corps, Augsburg, Germany, FLAK Kaserne
1980-1982
...and my Grandfather Hugo home on leave in 1918 with a partially disguised Model T
God Bless Our Veterans!
What an amazing brotherhood we share...
Navy Seabees
Phu Bai 67-68
Gia Le 68-69
Your Seabee post, Dale, reminds me of the guy in basic training with me in 1966, in serviceable WWII barracks at Fort Puke (Polk), Louisiana, still believing the recruiter that he would be going around the US building Army bases. In fact, his wife went out and bought a travel trailer for them to live in at these mythical bases...
Army recruiters had to lie, cheat and steal to keep their jobs back then.
My main sacrifice for two years was financial. After Basic, the Nike training at Redstone and 16 months in 4th Ordnance Co., Miesau, Germany, were pretty good, jobwise. At least until I made E-5, with a wife and then a child, we could have qualified for welfare.
I respect all those who served in the Vietnam era, and all those who didn't, save for a few chickenhawks.
rdr
54th Ordinance Company, V Corp, Muenster Germany 1969-1971.
Should have been the 545th Ordinance..
Ralph, here's a stroll down Memory Lane for you.
Son of a WWII, Korea, Viet Nam era vet.
Viet Nam vet
Father of a vet
Soon to be grand-father of a vet.
God Bless America and all who live here.
Thank you for all of your service!
Senior Chief Navy Counselor 1979 - 2001
7th Army, 261st Engineering Company, Kitzingen and Furth, Germany, 1960 to 1963. Worked as a Supply Specialist.
Keith
Steve, for some forgotten reason, I didn't get a pass to Leesville, so I never saw it. Thanks for the pix.
Ah, memories. I think I took that picture on the way to catch a bus to Lake Charles. A bunch of us went down there and rented a hotel room and spent the weekend sleeping. Part of basic is exhaustion and a desire to sleep. On Sundays, supposed to be a day off, some of us would go out in the woods and nap so we wouldn't be in the barracks when somebody came looking for "volunteers" for chores.
Ralph: A little off topic, I know, but I have a stool and was told it was made from the nose piece bracket of a NIKE rocket. If I posted a picture or PM'd you, do you think you could confirm that? Joe
Very Cool.
Wes Nelson, We flew into and out of Vung Tau every once in a while during the '70-'71 time frame. If you saw any Chinooks with a yellow arrow on the nose, that was us. Dave
271st ASHC Innkeepers(Chinooks)
Can Tho, Viet Nam
'70-'71
David Stroud, Spec 5
U.S. Army, '69-'71
At LZ Vandergrift during Operation Lam Son 719. About 3 Kliks off the DMZ in 1971. That Little mound behind me was actually the top of my foxhole. When not in the bush I lived in that for close to 5 months. At the time the picture was taken I was about 137 pounds. I weigh 267 pounds now. We were Charlie Company 23 S&T. A Gypsy trucking company that was put together from people from several different units. When the Operation was over the company was broken up and we went to other units. We were able to be somewhat selective about whether we wanted to go out on the road and be ambushed or stay on the LZ and face the rockets and mortars. The NVA were pretty relentless and their idea of daily entertainment was less than enjoyable. Quite the warrior wouldn't you say. My sister told me my Mother cried for a day after receiving this photo.
Notice no name tag, or rank or unit patch. We stole our clothes out of resupply because it wasn't meant for us. We had hot meals once a week. The rest of the time we ate C-rats. But it was still better than putting up with the lifers in Germany and all their BS. When we finally went back to Chu Lai we weren't allowed back thru the gate to go on post because we were dirty, dressed in rags and our trucks were wrecks. It took some high ranking officer to tell them to let us through the gates and onto post. Then they put us down on the beach in Chu Lai and told us to stay there until they could get us re-assigned.
Probably couldn't identify it, Joe. We just took the birds out of the storage canister and did annual functional tests of the internal guidance, and re-canned them.
The first Nike was the Ajax, which I never saw. It was smaller and had a single booster.
I took this at White Sands museum five years ago.
This is the Nike Hercules, with a 4 can solid rocket booster. It was made to carry a 60 Kiloton nuke that would explode at 60,000 feet to knock out a squadron of Soviet bombers. Picture that event off the coast of Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco.
Sure glad those days are history.
The successor Nike X was an anti-missile missile, and became just a bargaining chip in MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction.
rdr
Last assignment was the 920 ARS, flying KC-135 Tankers. The first ribbon is a DFC with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Second is an Air Medal with about 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. Ive been retired since 72 but it's still "in my blood". No one ever sees our medals
I had my Model T in storage while I was in the Air Force and all my extra parts disappeared.
Mike, you were Mister Handsome even in scruffy duds. Your remark about lifers reminds me that I wanted to stay in Korea to avoid the lifer/very GI nonsense here at home. After I applied for an extension we got a very gung ho sergeant major who wanted to run a tight ship, so I wasn't sorry my extension turned out to be only one month. It was all quite an adventure, but I don't think I'll re-up.
That's funny Steve. After we got back to Chu Lai I was put into a unit with a 1st Sergeant with only a couple months before his retirement after 30 years. He used to come into our hootch and yell, "Lifer on board". He had to be in his late fifties. His next line was, "Where the He_l do I have to go to get a beer in this place". It wouldn't have been such a big deal but there were about 30 hootches in the Company area and he wanted to make sure he said hi to everyone. He usually never made it much farther than 4 or 5 hootches but he gave it a good try. The CQ would have to come and get someone to help get the old boy back to his hootch to lay down. When he left we all missed him. Back in those days he really was an old boy too. We were all in our very early 20's and would hope we could live to see his age. Now in my sixties I can set back and think of how young he was.
Oh by the way, thanks for the compliment Steve and you should know I'm still quite handsome but I choose to hide it under all this ugliness. LOL
crew chief U S Army Air Force. last assignment Ladd field, Fairbanks Alaska Cold Weather Testing Detachment, in air force 1944-1946. it was cold outside!
Wow Will, looking good all bloused up and spitshined to the top. You were looking good.
OK, Hal. What did you pick up a 'DFC' (Distinguished Flying Cross) for doing? They don't just give those things away.
I don't remember why I took a picture of the ship or the building, the kids are Vietnamese Boy Scouts. Remember, I was there in 66-67.
That's me (on the left) and Leroy, standing in front of our 'office'. The set of pictures on the right is Saigon. (top, left to right) Trudeau St. The Bank of America. The French war memorial statue. The (good ol) Hotel Majestic, the USO and I don't remember what the last building was.
Mike G,,, If I remember right that was one of my better days,,,,, Not sure what happened between then and now, It seems something has obscured the view of my feet now days. Oh to be that young again.
I can relate to the whole obscured view of the feet. Ya just kind of have to accept that everything is still there, where it's supposed to be. I miss having people tell me I'm "so skinny". I thought people were a little insensitive when they did it. Now all I hear medical and health personal that if I want to stay healthy I better lose some weight.
1942 to 1946 Africa-Wales-England-Normandy,France, D-Day + 53 crossings from England to France on LST 262. 88 years old and still kickin
Navy 69-75. VN 69-71
Army 2001-2011. OIF OEF
1958-1959 Field Artillery Officer Training
1959-1960 Light Anti Aircraft Artillery Battery, Brigade North, Norwegian Army.
Me, I was 4F but making stuff go like the Beechcraft Stagger wing, Super DC3, Lockheed Super Constellation weather radar installation, RB66, Nike Ajax, K C 99 tankers, The last of the Douglas B26's, Laminated Cedar wood Mine Sweepers with aluminum and stainless steel engines, Fletcher class Destroyer aluminum top-side modifications to make them less top-heavy and lighter, Project Mercury in 1958, and even the MD 80, and the Goshawk trainer . . . and later on a few things I can't talk about. All before most of you were born . . . ;~)
315TH combat cargo, 1949-193
587th Field Maint Engineers (Heavy Repair) Pioneer Kaserene Hanau, Germany, 1954-1956
53 crossings, Arthur, that must have been a record? My oldest brother crossed to Omaha six days after D-Day with his large gun. Could he have been your passenger?
We'll have to talk about the Goshawk, Frank. I had unlimited access to fly the sim at DAC.
rdr
Ricks-Surf City
He could very well have been one of our passengers. We took the 29th Infantry in on D-Day
Thanks vets!!!
2nd Infantry Division 74th Maintenance Brigade 74th Maintenance Battalion 2nd Maintenance Company Korea 94-95
Richard J. Kopsky
1922 - 2010
Army Air Corp - Submarine Patrol
Gen. Curtis LeMay's "taxi service" in US.
Arthur, he was in 1st Army or 9th Army Artillery, 155mm Howitzer. He told me this morning they rode an LST to Omaha Beach 3 or 4 days after the fighting was finished there, and had to wade ashore.
Just lost a dear friend yesterday.
RIP Lt. Col. Bill Setnkel 1930-2012.
Navigator, B-29's Korea, SAC B-47's, B-52's Viet Nam.
Dennis, sorry to hear that. May he rest in peace. Dave