I'm pretty sure dad was at this base from what he's told me...among 9 other bases. He kept fairly good notes and many photos. He served June 1969 - July 1970 with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, United States Army. His vehicles always have the yellow insignia in the back window somewhere. Very proud of his service.
i was with the 7th Cav in the Ia Drang Valley, thank god for you guys. We had a nickname for you guys, Wop Wop boys are comin and was a nickname out of Respect. Thank You Guys you live for ever in our hearts.
Hey one of your own is up in the V.A. in Fayetteville Arkansas . I met him yesterday while volunteering he wanted more than anything in the world for someone to take him out for a smoke. They nurse asked me if I'd do it I said with pleasure I took him to the smoking shack let him stay for 30 minutes. took him back , I got in trouble for doing it ! got the axe from the old dragon who got in my face screeching ! I turned in my badge!! I'd do it all over again ! in fact I'm going down there Thursday for my appointments and going up to that room and taking him to smoke as long he wants to. hell with do nothing volunteers !
Sharing this with my father. Cecil Hengeveld. He served in the 2/20th ARA in 1966-67. Warrant Officer who trained at Fort Wolters and went on to be an instructor at Ft. Rucker, where I was born in 1969. He's shared some Super 8 footage with me I'll have to post and link back to here. Not quite as high quality as this stuff. But, real combat footage of placing rockets on hills. He was in An Khe. Still learn something new about his time there every time I talk to him.
I remember watching the news in the UK as a child, used to have news footage everyday showing what was going on in Vietnam. In the 80s i joined the British army and wanted to join the Army Air Corps as an air gunner, (Watching to much of the Air Cav and their door gunners) but was informed that it was not a full time job, and you had to get picked to do it and they did not have many places - so changed to Royal Corps of Transport. Did spend a lot of time with 3 Army Air Corps in Germany where i was a fuel tanker driver Avtag. Filling up the AC Refuelers.
Great job putting these videos together. I am a generation too young to have served in Vietnam and I have always admired the Vietnam helicopter pilots. They were the ones who really pushed those machines to figure out just how much they could get out of them. When I was taking my rotor wing check rides I had the honor of flying with a DA, designated examiner, who flew slicks in Vietnam. Thank you guys for your service.
Jason Nemjo, Flying slicks , was no fun when they were Air Assaulting us Grunts into a area and you could hear, bullets slamming into their chopper, I imagine ! They were probably wondering, if they were going to end up , on the ground with us ?? We had some damn good pilots .
I gotta admit, as a Cold War Fast-Attack Submariner who kept the oceans clean of vermin as you did the skies - you guys actually were, and are, Stone Cold Badasses. Excellent video.
@@tjclawson3549 ABSOLUTELY - they make GREAT TARGETS….🤔😬. I was a Fast-Attack Sonarman Only - 1 Crew, 1 Screw, none of that Boomer nonsense for me…. One of my best friends was a Marine Aviator, Fixed and Rotary Wing in Vietnam. “Interesting Stories” traded back and forth…
I just don't know how those LRRPs could do it. Dropped off in the bush from a loud helicopter in the middle of enemy territory? I would be scared shitless. I'm not convinced I could handle it and I'm a stable genius too.
My 1st Cousin was an Airman on a Huey. He always told me the war was the most amazing point in his life except and I quote "Too many Good Men Wasted, But the sheer amount of Metal made My (his ) Heart Sing as we returned to Base". To all who Served THANK YOU AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU.
I was at LZ English, when they took me to the hospital. These guys, & the Nurses, were under appreciated. Thanks for saving my life in 1968! Still kicking, but not jumping!
I served 66-67 with C Co. 228th aviation battalion as a flight engineer on a ch-47. I remember like yesterday. Remember guns a go go? There were three ships when I got there, but only two when I left. What a bunch of great guys.
Thank you for this. This was my first duty station in 1970 with the 3/506 101st Airmobile. Not sure if this is where the sappers blew up the choppers. I remember coming in on a Caribou.
coming up on the anniversary of my homecoming (2/25//69) Served with A Co, 15th medical battalion for 14 months. Spent most of my time attached to Seventh Cav (Garryowen!) Saw all the hot spots; Hue during the 1968 Tet uprising, khe sahn, A Shau Valley and later, tay ninh province along the Cambodian border. I helped take care of many brave men. Good video, I think I still break into a very big grin every time I hear/see a helicopter, especially Hueys
Hi Doc. I too served with the 15th med. at Camp Evans. Got there Dec. 5th 1967. Worked at the tent hospital for a few weeks before being sent to A co 1st platoon 2/12 on Jan. 7th 1968. Stayed as field medic until Cav moved south to Tay Nin when I went back with 15th med. tent hospital.
Thanks for sharing. This is Connell Radcliff, and your shot of Camp Radcliff, named after my father, Donald G Radcliff is greatly appreciated. I would love to hear from anyone who had experiences there.
I had the privilege of visiting Saigon a 1972 as a 4 yr old. I went with my mother as a volunteer to the bass hospital at Clark to try to bring some cheer to som severely wounded young men among them amputees no more than 23 years old.
@Mario Olschewski. You know, it’s weird - our neighborhood is on the flight path from D.C. to Camp David, and in certain Presidencies we’d hear Huey’s going back and forth, and Marine One and decoys occasionally. But it occurred to me that I haven’t heard any traffic in a LONG TIME. Dubya used to go up there all the time, as did Clinton. But Obama & the current Buffoon? Nope.
Thanks for the pictures!! I wish I would have taking movies while there but then back then movie cameras were very expensive. PFC's, leaving for deeper action. I was with Co B, 227th, 1st Air Cav.
@@rappaulrappaul163 : You are so right ! There was no music, and I wonder what movies would be like, when a guy is laying on the ground shot and bleeding, what it would be like with NO music. Because there sure as hell wasn't any !!!
that really is a good book, i must have read that several times now, love the details. another really good read is 'low level hell' a cayuse ( loach ) pilot, really hard to put down.
This video must be early 60's as the 1st Cav patches are colored. Excellent video!! This was a big base so quite secure. I remember coming here after landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
Not so, Max! We lost a bunch of damned good people, but we took far more of them with us than we lost! I will admit NVA and VC were formidable, well-trained, disciplined, focused fighters; they were no joke!
@@cohee100 , I met Bill at the Indianapolis reunion, along with others. I only live 100 miles from there. So many have passed on, already. I guess because we are old already !
Right on, my hats off to you sir ! that Door Gunner at three thirty six min mark looked serious as a heart attack. he had enough smoke to mark somebody's position? oh yeah!
Served with Ist Cav at An The 66-67. Combat Weather ,attached from Air Force. Briefed Gen. Norton twice a day, was in the field all over 'll Corp. Was proud to be with the 1st Team, proudly wore my Cav patch. I felt more Army than A.F.
Great video. I was in high school during this time. Drafted into Army in '68 going to Germany then later Vietnam in '72, Long Bin. I remember seeing those 1st Cav guys getting out of their OH-6 Loach's, spurs and stetson hats and strutting over to the PX to pick up cases of beer. I was so envious and admired them. Although a late bloomer, I ended up getting my commission and going to flight school and serving in a Cavalry unit but to this day feel like I missed something very special. I have the utmost respect for any Army Aviator during that period.
+Ron Penrose They definitely earned it. I wish the slick pilots got more praise; seems like the guns pilots are all over youtube; but the real heroes, the ones with door gunners are left by the wayside.
Penrose: Those officers could, because they stayed nice and clean. Did not have to worry about getting dirty at the officers club at night. - just a grunt till they wanted us some where in a hurry, we did not want to go to, in any hurry and not enthused about jumping out of a chopper at 8-15' with a full load.
Remarkable quality. Thank you! I'm on a 'Cav (aviation) 'Nam book kick lately. Not too many people say this but: I should've been born in a different era. God bless our men and women who served and continue to do so. Garryowen!
In early 1969 I was a MAJ and Operations Officer Of the 2/1, 196 Bde, when we went into Tien Phuoc Valley, Quang Nam Province, and fought quite a battle there. I remember seeing several rocks with "horse blankets' painted on them. Also remember a rock pinnacle with very steep sides and barely room to land a Huey on the top. Here was a stripped jeep with 1st Cav markings. My guess is that they hooked a jeep on there (probably with a C46) to use the radios to obtain good commo, then found they couldn't get it out with a Huey so they stripped the radios and abandoned it.
These were heroes. They protected lives. Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to read the history of what happened to S. Vietnam after US forces relinquished their support in 1975 as the cowards in congress ended support of the Southern resistance to communism. Over 1 million were murdered as the Vietcong overran the south.
Awe Jack, these people don't want to be bothered by facts like that ! How we won the war over there and lost it over here . All the people who helped us over there got murdered, in so called re-education camps .
I fought with, C-Troop...1st of the 9th..Scouts, 1st, Cav., Div. (Apocalypse Now) Look us up...Lost my Right leg due to ground fire........Still..... The best job I ever had!!!!!!!..Ret. AirBorne, Reservation, S.D. GBA
My father was a Captain with the 11th Air Assault Division. As you may know 11th Air Assault invented The whole helicopter air Mobile concept in Georgia just prior to being converted to the 1st Cavalry Cavalry Division Air Mobile. His first two are there was 1965 and 1966. Second tour he was Senior Province Advisors for Chaudoc, 1971 to 1973. He was among the last American military to leave that Province. I spent the time during his second tour at Clark Air Force Base Philippines.
Great vid. I was with the Cav 68-69, flew into Radcift many times. That OH-13 brought back many memories. I was a scout with Flying Circus. HHC 1st Bde.
I noticed a couple of times where there was saluting outside in the open. Where I was at that was one of the first things drilled into my head, NO outside saluting, if they saw you saluting you would be standing tall before the man. Inside yes, but outside NO. But this video was great to see, thank you
I was with the 4th inf. and we moved into Radcliffe end of 1969. I was an RTO. I’m proud of serving with the 4th and have total respect for the 1st Cav.
Moved from Camp Enari to An Khe early 1970, with the 7/17 Cav, A Trp, Ruthless Riders. Was there when sapper attack took out about 15 choppers, can’t remember exact number. Finished up at Hollaway, back in the Pleiku neighborhood. Thks for the video
The Cobra pictured at 5:55 was a ship assigned to D Co., 227th AHB, 1st Cav Div. My unit in '67. The color of the geometric design on the side indicates which battalion. Green was the 227th, blue was the 229th, yellow was the 1/9 Cav. The shape indicated which company, triangle was A Co., square was B Co., circle was C Co. and diamond was D Co. The 227th's also had a lightning bolt thru it. The descendant of A/227th (A Co., 3rd Btl, 227th Avn. Regt) currently use a green triangle on their ships.
We may have been flying around at the same place and time as I was with the B Co., 227th at Bong Song, Chu Lai, and Camp Evans. I was a door gunner not a pilot.
Great video. Although I was U.S.Air Force at Tan Son Nhut and Bien Hoa from 1968 - 1969, and all I worked on was F-100's, I was in the U.S.Army Reserves from 1977 - 1987 and am familiar with all the aviation in the video. This is a great video, as I'm sure all the others above are, too. Good job.
A child of the 60s living in El Paso, Vietnam was a reality. I saw it in the eyes of grown cousins, the nightly news, and those Hueys doing flyovers, the soldiers in the door waving back at silly school girls throwing peace signs lol. God Bless all of you and thank you!
Thanks for the kind words about the Go Go's, (Armed Chinooks) when I joined the unit Oct 66 there were three ships, we lost "cost of living" May 5, 1967 and lost "birth control" Feb 22, 1968 near Hue. The last Go Go "Easy Money" is on display at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama, we get together every couple years down there.
At seconds 5:26 there are three patches on this sign. One is Cav, the other is 1st Aviation Group and the Flying Dragons. The Dragons--52th Aviation Battalion had a couple of companies at An Khe. This strip and pictures is very reminiscent of Headquarters for the 52nd at Pleiku, just over the mountains to the east. Tons of memories. Thanks.
Wayne Hendricks: You are correct about early 60's video of Air Cav in Nam. We arrived Sept/Oct 1965 and still had patches in full color. Changed to olive drab sometime in 65 or early '66. I came over on a troop transport, landing at Qhia Nhon and air lifted in Chinooks to Ahn Khe. I was with A Co 229th AHB.
Colored patch or not, did not matter to the ones who did the fighting. We wore no patches or name tags. We got clean clothes every 2 weeks and they were just dumped out a chopper in a bundle and you hoped to get something that fit . 1/8th A co 1st Plt. weapons squad. 2 men on a M60 is not really a squad, is it ? Well that is what they called it, at that time.
Hey Bobby, I had a uncle that was a 101st screaming eagle, in 69, 70 , I know he was in Icorp. His name was James Larry Sharpe, he was from Ga. I heard him, talk about phu bai some . I know he got 2 purple hearts, I have heard that he got AK round in the buttock on a ladder , while getting extracted maybe? I am not sure on the 2nd seems like pungi, or shrapnel. Anyway I am trying to figure out anything I can, he was my uncle and kinda raised me. I have been told that his daughter didn't want to share it with me. ??? He was proud of his military achievements. Especially his airborne wings, and his jumps, he was 82nd coming into Vietnam. But was assigned to the 101st. Because 82nd was about to head to s.america as he was getting to Vietnam. Maybe you can tell me how and what I might can get on him. I want to do some kinda memorial, maybe a plaque for our vfw or something. Thanks
I'm not serving yet, but my family are; however they are in the British Army. I am currently at a point where I'm trying to work out whether to proceed with the initial plan of trying to join the British Army as an Officer, or whether to try and enlist in the US Army, because frankly I share more in common with the 80 odd American friends that I have from the South (Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Texas mainly) than ANY British people I've ever met. I am not one for European Liberalism.
Terrific video! I was down the road a piece in the lap of luxury @ Tan Son Nhut. I've read books about the real soldiers and heroes of the time. This puts a 'face' on the written words about the guys who carried the war to the enemy. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Well Done.
You're welcome. BTW, the following photo (at 5:58) is a ship assigned to the 118th AHC, The Bandits, (never a part of the 1st Cav). At least two of their ships are still around. One is airworthy with the Wings and Rotors Air Museum in Cal. Another, "Miss Mini", is on static display at the Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Penn. Check the 118th website for photos.
As a Vietnam vet i try to stay away from these clips yet i can't seem to, they bring back a time in my life ,well just a time in my life of 1969!
My dad hates them too; but remember, your children love and respect the hell out of you for being their and doing that. So let us show some love. 🫡
Me, too. Co. A, 227th AHB, Lai Khe 69-70. I loved flying UH-1D & H...miss it.
I'm pretty sure dad was at this base from what he's told me...among 9 other bases. He kept fairly good notes and many photos. He served June 1969 - July 1970 with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, United States Army. His vehicles always have the yellow insignia in the back window somewhere. Very proud of his service.
Я уверен, что мой Отец принимал участие в сбитие "Фантомов " и Б -52 в небе над Свободным Северным Вьетнамом!!!
i was with the 7th Cav in the Ia Drang Valley, thank god for you guys. We had a nickname for you guys, Wop Wop boys are comin and was a nickname out of Respect. Thank You Guys you live for ever in our hearts.
Robert Azzaro My friend was a door gunner on a Huey in Ia Drang.
I served with the 1st Air Cav '68-69 11th Aviation, An Khe,, Camp Evans, Phouc-Vinh South Viet-Nam...
Hey one of your own is up in the V.A. in Fayetteville Arkansas . I met him yesterday while volunteering he wanted more than anything in the world for someone to take him out for a smoke. They nurse asked me if I'd do it I said with pleasure I took him to the smoking shack let him stay for 30 minutes. took him back , I got in trouble for doing it ! got the axe from the old dragon who got in my face screeching ! I turned in my badge!! I'd do it all over again ! in fact I'm going down there Thursday for my appointments and going up to that room and taking him to smoke as long he wants to. hell with do nothing volunteers !
Thank you for your service SIR!
Uh-1 driver "DEATH FROM ABOVE" 1st Air Cav 1970-1973
Viet Nam All Veterans reunion Melbourne, FLA 19-22 April 2018 www.floridaveteransreunion.com
Did you know CW2 bill abbott?
Im a old man but when I hear a chopper im young and strong again.
good for you really
they "called it off in my face as a 15yo";
later, i still do and don't get it, but ...
A Huey goin over head,or in the distance,chills me to the core!Thomas A.Filipiak Viet Nam 67 68!
Sharing this with my father. Cecil Hengeveld. He served in the 2/20th ARA in 1966-67. Warrant Officer who trained at Fort Wolters and went on to be an instructor at Ft. Rucker, where I was born in 1969. He's shared some Super 8 footage with me I'll have to post and link back to here. Not quite as high quality as this stuff. But, real combat footage of placing rockets on hills. He was in An Khe. Still learn something new about his time there every time I talk to him.
I. Was also 2/20 Headquarters co. Phouch Vin 1970 what memories!
I remember watching the news in the UK as a child, used to have news footage everyday showing what was going on in Vietnam. In the 80s i joined the British army and wanted to join the Army Air Corps as an air gunner, (Watching to much of the Air Cav and their door gunners) but was informed that it was not a full time job, and you had to get picked to do it and they did not have many places - so changed to Royal Corps of Transport. Did spend a lot of time with 3 Army Air Corps in Germany where i was a fuel tanker driver Avtag. Filling up the AC Refuelers.
Should of joined the RAF
I was SGT Joe 3/506--- 101st ABN. We were Reaction Force for II Corp An Khe to Cambodia. Flew with these guys many times. Thanks for the support.
Great job putting these videos together. I am a generation too young to have served in Vietnam and I have always admired the Vietnam helicopter pilots. They were the ones who really pushed those machines to figure out just how much they could get out of them. When I was taking my rotor wing check rides I had the honor of flying with a DA, designated examiner, who flew slicks in Vietnam. Thank you guys for your service.
Jason Nemjo,
Flying slicks , was no fun when they were Air Assaulting us Grunts into a area and you could hear, bullets slamming into their chopper, I imagine ! They were probably wondering, if they were going to end up , on the ground with us ??
We had some damn good pilots .
I gotta admit, as a Cold War Fast-Attack Submariner who kept the oceans clean of vermin as you did the skies - you guys actually were, and are, Stone Cold Badasses. Excellent video.
Served 1966 in A Co 1st Bn 12th Inf (Abn) . G Baugh
Gotta love those Boomers!
@@tjclawson3549 ABSOLUTELY - they make GREAT TARGETS….🤔😬. I was a Fast-Attack Sonarman Only - 1 Crew, 1 Screw, none of that Boomer nonsense for me….
One of my best friends was a Marine Aviator, Fixed and Rotary Wing in Vietnam. “Interesting Stories” traded back and forth…
My husband served An Khe 1st cav 1967 John Rainey home state Tn.
Respects
Thank you John for your service
This video is great to put an image to the description Bob Mason gives in his book "Chickhawk" about camp Radcliff and the An Khe area.
Best book I ever read about over there.
my dad was in the 1st air cavalry in An Khe. Later he was in LRRP. Mac V recondo school. 1966 1967
He was a "Bad Ass", you should be proud young lady.
Respects
Ari, was his last name Land like yours? My dad was 2/8 1st air cav, also ended up going to Recondo. He was there July 66 - July 67.
I just don't know how those LRRPs could do it. Dropped off in the bush from a loud helicopter in the middle of enemy territory? I would be scared shitless. I'm not convinced I could handle it and I'm a stable genius too.
@@tombombadil5994 Try a tour as a Force Recon Marine
My 1st Cousin was an Airman on a Huey. He always told me the war was the most amazing point in his life except and I quote "Too many Good Men Wasted, But the sheer amount of Metal made My (his ) Heart Sing as we returned to Base". To all who Served THANK YOU AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU.
my Dad served with 1st air cav 1967-68
robert spencer 1 year so did he die in the war
robert spencer i hope he didn't
Murders
mystic saber no he didn't but he passed away in 2007
Pwarfor Ptroske who are you calling murders
I was at LZ English, when they took me to the hospital. These guys, & the Nurses, were under appreciated. Thanks for saving my life in 1968! Still kicking, but not jumping!
Flew guns for the ARA 2/20 Arty with the bravest and most professional men I have ever known.... Then and still 50 years later
Respects
Thanks for your thankless silent service.
@Raymond Lopez : did you mean chair force ?
Thank you. You might have saved my father. 💙💙💙
I served 66-67 with C Co. 228th aviation battalion as a flight engineer on a ch-47. I remember like yesterday. Remember guns a go go? There were three ships when I got there, but only two when I left. What a bunch of great guys.
Thank you for this. This was my first duty station in 1970 with the 3/506 101st Airmobile. Not sure if this is where the sappers blew up the choppers. I remember coming in on a Caribou.
BTDT Hotel Company 75th Infantry (Ranger). Loved the sound of slicks coming in for extraction out of Laos.
Everytime I see that patch I I respect it.
coming up on the anniversary of my homecoming (2/25//69) Served with A Co, 15th medical battalion for 14 months. Spent most of my time attached to Seventh Cav (Garryowen!) Saw all the hot spots; Hue during the 1968 Tet uprising, khe sahn, A Shau Valley and later, tay ninh province along the Cambodian border. I helped take care of many brave men. Good video, I think I still break into a very big grin every time I hear/see a helicopter, especially Hueys
Hi Doc. I too served with the 15th med. at Camp Evans. Got there Dec. 5th 1967. Worked at the tent hospital for a few weeks before being sent to A co 1st platoon 2/12 on Jan. 7th 1968. Stayed as field medic until Cav moved south to Tay Nin when I went back with 15th med. tent hospital.
Sorry, not Brenda Jones, I am using wifes email. I am Doc Larry Jones 91b20
I was HQ Co. 15th Med. Quang Tri, Camp Evans, there for Tet 68. Got the shit scared out of me on that one : )
Left Phuoc Vinh 43 years ago today to come home. There's the Cav, and there is the rest. Best wishes to all Skytroopers, past and present.
Thank you for your video.
My young husband served with the 1st of the 9th, Troop D 1969-1970.
@Von Musklaus you POS you couldnt lick his boots on your best day
@Von Musklaus Idiot. Rot in hell!
Thanks for sharing. This is Connell Radcliff, and your shot of Camp Radcliff, named after my father, Donald G Radcliff is greatly appreciated. I would love to hear from anyone who had experiences there.
Hi my old buddy's I was in An Khe with the 238th gunrunners in 69 & 70
I had the privilege of visiting Saigon a 1972 as a 4 yr old. I went with my mother as a volunteer to the bass hospital at Clark to try to bring some cheer to som severely wounded young men among them amputees no more than 23 years old.
Nothing sounds better, than Huey's in flight!
Rivaled closely by the sounds of cobras working out overhead.
@Mario Olschewski. You know, it’s weird - our neighborhood is on the flight path from D.C. to Camp David, and in certain Presidencies we’d hear Huey’s going back and forth, and Marine One and decoys occasionally. But it occurred to me that I haven’t heard any traffic in a LONG TIME. Dubya used to go up there all the time, as did Clinton. But Obama & the current Buffoon? Nope.
@@artharrison294
Unfortunately I don't have seen any Cobras here in Germany. Only a few Apaches. But they all sounds nice too 💪🏻
@@CYBERVISIONSdotCom
Do you have a room for rent 😉? You're a lucky man 💪🏻
Thank you for your service and having to deal with that shit for your country, The sacrifices that were made are not forgotten.
Thanks for the pictures!! I wish I would have taking movies while there but then back then movie cameras were very expensive. PFC's, leaving for deeper action. I was with Co B, 227th, 1st Air Cav.
Respects
Awesome video!!!! A Troop 1/9 Cav Headhunters!!! 1992-1994
My hats off to all of them, I admire them all.
My husband: drafted. Served in country 1968 ' 1969. First Air Cav. B Company, 2/5. Anyone else?
Respects
amazing shots!! never ceases to amaze me just how much hardware the Americans had over there!!...just mind boggling!!.
vietnam war had the best soundtrack
And maybe the most selfless soldiers. God Bless 'em.
how stupid. The soldiers fought for staying alive and tried to get home and not for a soundtrac.
@@rappaulrappaul163 And you know, Rupaul?
@@rappaulrappaul163 : You are so right ! There was no music, and I wonder what movies would be like, when a guy is laying on the ground shot and bleeding, what it would be like with NO music.
Because there sure as hell wasn't any !!!
I remember reading about this unit in Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. Some details are just as they were in the book.
that really is a good book, i must have read that several times now, love the details. another really good read is 'low level hell' a cayuse ( loach ) pilot, really hard to put down.
Great book.
@@spooksixsix Yep... By Hugh Mills...
An excellent read.
This video must be early 60's as the 1st Cav patches are colored. Excellent video!! This was a big base so quite secure. I remember coming here after landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
My husband was WITH CHARLIE CO. 5/7 FIRST AIR CAV. 1969-1970.
The government might be wrong,but always support the troops.Thank you for your service
I processed through An Khe in Oct 1967 on the way to Quang Tri province. Boy, does this bring back memories.
This is around base camp. 90% of the infantry is out in the bush, on search and distroy missions.
Not so, Max! We lost a bunch of damned good people, but we took far more of them with us than we lost! I will admit NVA and VC were formidable, well-trained, disciplined, focused fighters; they were no joke!
Awesome footage and soundtrack. Now thats a ''perfect call''. I hated that war. But I loved those years.
Thanks for throwing this together. MIA RIP.
This was very well put together. Big salute!
My grandfather invented the death from above symbol as well as the death cards. Hes a good guy.
Bill Mozey? How is bill doing, I have not seen him in many years.
@@cohee100 , I met Bill at the Indianapolis reunion, along with others. I only live 100 miles from there.
So many have passed on, already. I guess because we are old already !
I served in Nam 68/69 !/8 2nd Plt 1ST AIR CAV IIICorps
Thank you for your service!
Right on, my hats off to you sir ! that Door Gunner at three thirty six min mark looked serious as a heart attack. he had enough smoke to mark somebody's position? oh yeah!
B Troop 1st of the 9th. June, 68 to June 69. Avionics mechanic ... so these birds with the music of the time is very special!
Dale Kaisershot
Served with Ist Cav at An The 66-67. Combat Weather ,attached from Air Force. Briefed Gen. Norton twice a day, was in the field all over 'll Corp. Was proud to be with the 1st Team, proudly wore my Cav patch. I felt more Army than A.F.
Did you know Rodney Anden?
So proud of those that served!!! You fought and died in a crazy war. But what war is not crazy and useless. Dan Yost USMC 1970
Daniel Yost are you from Charleston aka Chucktown ?
Great video. I was in high school during this time. Drafted into Army in '68 going to Germany then later Vietnam in '72, Long Bin. I remember seeing those 1st Cav guys getting out of their OH-6 Loach's, spurs and stetson hats and strutting over to the PX to pick up cases of beer. I was so envious and admired them. Although a late bloomer, I ended up getting my commission and going to flight school and serving in a Cavalry unit but to this day feel like I missed something very special. I have the utmost respect for any Army Aviator during that period.
+Ron Penrose They definitely earned it. I wish the slick pilots got more praise; seems like the guns pilots are all over youtube; but the real heroes, the ones with door gunners are left by the wayside.
Ron Penrose 67 long bin 69th sig
Penrose: Those officers could, because they stayed nice and clean. Did not have to worry about getting dirty at the officers club at night.
- just a grunt till they wanted us some where in a hurry, we did not want to go to, in any hurry and not enthused about jumping out of a chopper at 8-15' with a full load.
BADASS! hats off 1st team.....
Nice job, thanks.
Remarkable quality. Thank you! I'm on a 'Cav (aviation) 'Nam book kick lately. Not too many people say this but: I should've been born in a different era. God bless our men and women who served and continue to do so. Garryowen!
In early 1969 I was a MAJ and Operations Officer Of the 2/1, 196 Bde, when we went into Tien Phuoc Valley, Quang Nam Province, and fought quite a battle there. I remember seeing several rocks with "horse blankets' painted on them. Also remember a rock pinnacle with very steep sides and barely room to land a Huey on the top. Here was a stripped jeep with 1st Cav markings. My guess is that they hooked a jeep on there (probably with a C46) to use the radios to obtain good commo, then found they couldn't get it out with a Huey so they stripped the radios and abandoned it.
Great video, thanks, Cav, for keeping us safe back at Long Binh.
These were heroes. They protected lives. Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to read the history of what happened to S. Vietnam after US forces relinquished their support in 1975 as the cowards in congress ended support of the Southern resistance to communism. Over 1 million were murdered as the Vietcong overran the south.
Awe Jack, these people don't want to be bothered by facts like that ! How we won the war over there and lost it over here . All the people who helped us over there got murdered, in so called re-education camps .
The Montagards ,we left them hanging
I fought with, C-Troop...1st of the 9th..Scouts, 1st, Cav., Div. (Apocalypse Now) Look us up...Lost my Right leg due to ground fire........Still..... The best job I ever had!!!!!!!..Ret. AirBorne, Reservation, S.D. GBA
"1st of the 9th, they were supposed to meet us 20 kilometers farther north of the Nung river, Air Cav, those guys just couldn't sit still."😎
The only thing bad about this video is that it is too short. It does bring back the time I first joint the Air Force.. Awesome video.
My father was a Captain with the 11th Air Assault Division. As you may know 11th Air Assault invented The whole helicopter air Mobile concept in Georgia just prior to being converted to the 1st Cavalry Cavalry Division Air Mobile. His first two are there was 1965 and 1966. Second tour he was Senior Province Advisors for Chaudoc, 1971 to 1973. He was among the last American military to leave that Province.
I spent the time during his second tour at Clark Air Force Base Philippines.
Great vid. I was with the Cav 68-69, flew into Radcift many times. That OH-13 brought back many memories. I was a scout with Flying Circus. HHC 1st Bde.
I served with 1/12 D Company May to July 1969.The one song that takes me back is The Israelites by Desmond Decker.
I liked it! Nice job putting it together.
Thank you for this.
Excellent.
OORAH! Love the tunes too! 2/8 CAV 85-87. Thanks for posting, man...
I noticed a couple of times where there was saluting outside in the open. Where I was at that was one of the first things drilled into my head, NO outside saluting, if they saw you saluting you would be standing tall before the man. Inside yes, but outside NO. But this video was great to see, thank you
I was with the 4th inf. and we moved into Radcliffe end of 1969. I was an RTO. I’m proud of serving with the 4th and have total respect for the 1st Cav.
I also came in from Pleiku to Radcliff about the same time . I was a tinbender fixing bullet holes etc of the choppers. George Chase Arcadia, Fl
@@georgechase3275 My step dad came in around then too... he was 4th Aviation Company B ❤
Who was your stepdad? Perhaps I knew him. @@jennybaby2010
@@georgechase3275 Dorrell Thomas he was fire rescue
.sorry, dont know him. I'm always looking to reconnect. Take care. George@@jennybaby2010
Moved from Camp Enari to An Khe early 1970, with the 7/17 Cav, A Trp, Ruthless Riders. Was there when sapper attack took out about 15 choppers, can’t remember exact number. Finished up at Hollaway, back in the Pleiku neighborhood. Thks for the video
My hometown friend Thomas Jackson was there in 1965 in Ahn Khe
Great video! Music works so well it doesn't matter if it's not from that era ;
The Cobra pictured at 5:55 was a ship assigned to D Co., 227th AHB, 1st Cav Div. My unit in '67. The color of the geometric design on the side indicates which battalion. Green was the 227th, blue was the 229th, yellow was the 1/9 Cav. The shape indicated which company, triangle was A Co., square was B Co., circle was C Co. and diamond was D Co. The 227th's also had a lightning bolt thru it. The descendant of A/227th (A Co., 3rd Btl, 227th Avn. Regt) currently use a green triangle on their ships.
We may have been flying around at the same place and time as I was with the B Co., 227th at Bong Song, Chu Lai, and Camp Evans. I was a door gunner not a pilot.
I forgot to mention the date. From Aug 67- Aug 68.
I was with D co 227th the unit with the lighting bolt 1967 Anke Bong son and Quang tri glad that you made it home
Nowhere to Run - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Nice Video...thanks for the upload!
The music attached takes you right back
Great video. Although I was U.S.Air Force at Tan Son Nhut and Bien Hoa from 1968 - 1969, and all I worked on was F-100's, I was in the U.S.Army Reserves from 1977 - 1987 and am familiar with all the aviation in the video. This is a great video, as I'm sure all the others above are, too. Good job.
A child of the 60s living in El Paso, Vietnam was a reality. I saw it in the eyes of grown cousins, the nightly news, and those Hueys doing flyovers, the soldiers in the door waving back at silly school girls throwing peace signs lol. God Bless all of you and thank you!
Thank you and your family members for serving!
Thanks for your service 🙏
AIR CAV BABY!
My father was there too. Thank you for your service.
I was there from Oct. to Dec. 1968 at the 17th Field Hospital, it was a real hot spot to lived through would be too long to described.
Fantastic video. Brings back my Huey flying memories. Would love to fly that old lady again.
Yep! I put my time there too at Camp Radcliff and paid my respects at the EM Club atop Hon Cong Mountain. Those were the days.
Herrera: In 1967-68 all that was on top of Hong Cong Mountain, was a radio tower and Monkeys ?
@@victorcastle1840 it looked like a small city with all the hooches when I was there.
Thank You ALL who Served !! Salute.
Thank you for the memories Sir....
Excellent quality. Thanks.
Thanks for the kind words about the Go Go's, (Armed Chinooks) when I joined the unit Oct 66 there were three ships, we lost "cost of living" May 5, 1967 and lost "birth control" Feb 22, 1968 near Hue. The last Go Go "Easy Money" is on display at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama, we get together every couple years down there.
1st Cavalry Division, An Khe Vietnam, 1968-69
awsome ron d17 first air cav 1968 love those copters.i was there..nice vid thanks..
I was also there in 1968 - busy - busy place
At seconds 5:26 there are three patches on this sign. One is Cav, the other is 1st Aviation Group and the Flying Dragons. The Dragons--52th Aviation Battalion had a couple of companies at An Khe. This strip and pictures is very reminiscent of Headquarters for the 52nd at Pleiku, just over the mountains to the east. Tons of memories. Thanks.
Remembering the rubber trees and tapping in to one.so cool.
Wayne Hendricks: You are correct about early 60's video of Air Cav in Nam. We arrived Sept/Oct 1965 and still had patches in full color. Changed to olive drab sometime in 65 or early '66. I came over on a troop transport, landing at Qhia Nhon and air lifted in Chinooks to Ahn Khe. I was with A Co 229th AHB.
Thanks. Did you spent your whole year in Ahn Khe? I was with B Co 227th. We had the green square with a lightning bolt on the doors. Have a nice day!
Colored patch or not, did not matter to the ones who did the fighting. We wore no patches or name tags.
We got clean clothes every 2 weeks and they were just dumped out a chopper in a bundle and you hoped to get something that fit .
1/8th A co 1st Plt. weapons squad. 2 men on a M60 is not really a squad, is it ? Well that is what they called it, at that time.
I served at An Khe with the 238TH Aviation/Army. We had Cobras and Hueys. Feb. 1969-Feb.1970.
Hey Bobby, I had a uncle that was a 101st screaming eagle, in 69, 70 , I know he was in Icorp. His name was James Larry Sharpe, he was from Ga. I heard him, talk about phu bai some . I know he got 2 purple hearts, I have heard that he got AK round in the buttock on a ladder , while getting extracted maybe? I am not sure on the 2nd seems like pungi, or shrapnel. Anyway I am trying to figure out anything I can, he was my uncle and kinda raised me. I have been told that his daughter didn't want to share it with me. ??? He was proud of his military achievements. Especially his airborne wings, and his jumps, he was 82nd coming into Vietnam. But was assigned to the 101st. Because 82nd was about to head to s.america as he was getting to Vietnam. Maybe you can tell me how and what I might can get on him. I want to do some kinda memorial, maybe a plaque for our vfw or something. Thanks
Wow! Great info choprjock. Thanks!:-)
all the way
72 73 hell in a hand basket
thanks for the memoreys
great video thanks
I'm not serving yet, but my family are; however they are in the British Army. I am currently at a point where I'm trying to work out whether to proceed with the initial plan of trying to join the British Army as an Officer, or whether to try and enlist in the US Army, because frankly I share more in common with the 80 odd American friends that I have from the South (Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Texas mainly) than ANY British people I've ever met. I am not one for European Liberalism.
Amazing the amount of material we sent there
I left vietnam from this air base in 1970. 4th div. moved in and 1st cav moved out.10th armored calvery.
My step dad was in 4th viation Division Co B there during that time❤
Terrific video! I was down the road a piece in the lap of luxury @ Tan Son Nhut. I've read books about the real soldiers and heroes of the time. This puts a 'face' on the written words about the guys who carried the war to the enemy. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Well Done.
Great video! Thanks !!!!
Absolutely Badass Thanks
excellent vid by the way, the tunes ARE Vietnam era and capture the mood very well. AIRCAV!
Respect from the UK
You're welcome. BTW, the following photo (at 5:58) is a ship assigned to the 118th AHC, The Bandits, (never a part of the 1st Cav). At least two of their ships are still around. One is airworthy with the Wings and Rotors Air Museum in Cal. Another, "Miss Mini", is on static display at the Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Penn. Check the 118th website for photos.
Love this Video !!!