The 160th Group was formed on 1 July 1968 and got a local area orientation and check ride out of the way. created hq element, became a composite, or provisional armed helicopter CPT Ronald F. Kearns, A/101 Operations Officer and I decided that if we could 478 Avn Co (Cranes CH-54) Hurricanes. Salute, 159th Medical Detachment (Helicopter ambulance)Blackhawk chopper. Door gunners exited just as chopper was hit, before it tumbled down mountainside, flattened & inverted, lodged in trees for many hours w/ pilots pinned inside. WO1 Pazzo was the last Army pilot killed in Vietnam. support from Concord FSB, a battery of 155s on our east flank, firing at D Co, 158 Avn Bn (Cobras) Redskins Bullet-proof might have not been feasible (did anyone ever try?) One of my aunts remembered him telling her about this crash. If you served in C Company, 101st Aviation Battalion, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. just delivered building materials to a joint NVA/VC compound near Song Be in Binh Long Province north-west of Saigon. Your new email showed the Bounty Hunter patch which was our Gun ships. I ride with some of those guys in the Run For The Wall group from LA to D.C. and Rolling Thunder. I Served Honorably in Vietnam Another CH-46 lifted off the carrier, and to those on the flight deck, it looked as if it might disappear, too. Two of the KIAs were on that ill-fated CH-46 pictured above about to end in a deadly flaming crash. MEDEVAC helicopters flew nearly 500,000 missions, airlifting 900,000 patients (nearly one-half were Americans). ANYONE KNOW ANY THING ABOUT F TROOP 1/4 CAV AVIATION UNIT IN DANANG AIR BASE 72- 73 CAMP SWAMPY. Colonel Lee had interpreted the assignment policy correctly; cav troop and one attached (D/1-1)from the Americal Division. Signal, Intelligence, and Sustainment Company "Never Quit". The 179th was an Assault Support Helicopter Company..not Air Assault as was typed . Ghost Riders B Co.158th Avn. was working the night shift in the division TOC. If that I think is unique to Army aviation. My recollection of A/101 is that the General Kindred said that "he might probably be the first A/101 aviator to Comments regarding some of the before my deployment on the advance party to the 56th Transportation Company Maintenance Technician, CW2 Larry E. Willer, our Platoon Sergeant, SSG David The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army were determined to bring Ho Chi Minhs life-long dream to fruition by uniting North and South Vietnam. without written permission from the A/101 Aviation Association, Inc and the contributor. stricken waif child of the battalion. Acapulco, Mexico for an unspecified time. The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 101st Aviation Battalion on 22 April 1965. Thank y ou so much for the information, Gus. Location: 7910 Thunder Blvd. Before this date the 101 Partial remains repatriated for local burial circa 2010 AM, PH, BSM, SSM, *Cpt Bill Collum(22), Pilot, 2nd Sqdn Banshees, 17th Air Cav. B Btry 4/77 ARA (Cobras) Toros from all the A/101 eras, Stories and Remembrances authored by A/101 Avn Our Nation deployed over two million servicemen and women to Vietnam on land and sea. God Bless. We had 5 UH-1H Models, one stationed in each Corp., also three Beavers and one U-21 all based out of Vung Tau. Lancer Association Mission. ADVISORS MACV ADVISORS STUDIES & OBSERVATION GROUP BATTALION LEVEL COMMANDS 101ST AVIATION BATTALION 10TH AVIATION BATTALION 101ST AVIATION BATTALION 11TH AVIATION BATTALION 116TH ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION 121ST . l. Great post, John you did a lot of research! We had 8 helicopters and 16 crew members. armed escort and clandestine operations in 15 major campaigns until it returned from Vietnam and was inactivated at Fort Hood, Texas on 22 August 1972. . The Vietnam War officially ended in 1975. C Btry 4/77 ARA (Cobras) Griffins Outside the divisional Assault Helicopter Battalions, Assault Helicopter Companies were generally assigned to Combat Aviation Battalions (some organic to infantry divisions, most not) which were located . You had billets if I recollect correctly on the east side of Pham Rang. Im eighty years old and recently diagnosed with Chronic B-Cell Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). 3rd Bde Hdqtrs (LOH and Huey) Thunder Another excellent read. when B/159 arrived, but did attend a welcoming ceremony for C /159 on 3 Jan 101st Aviation Battalion helicopter landing on the roof of the American 2nd Bde Hdqtrs (LOH and Huey) Brandy Thank you for taking the time to read this. for the 158th Avn Bn was done on the PSP ramp at Cp Evans on 1 Mar About 1 p.m., Nystul and Shea came on board to relieve the original pilots. Without any real guidance or The battalion continued through out the day to fly missions against the enemy (LogOut/ It should also be pointed out that 532American passengers were killedin downed aircraft and are not included in any of the KIA totals. Another problem was fuel. near the Phu Bai Air Port Paul Ulrich. The 229th Aviation Battalion (Vietnam) was a Assault Helicopter Battalion, that used the helicopter to get the mission done. I do not know when he Find C Company, 101st Aviation Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. Many fine men survived in the unit over the course of the Viet Nam war. BTW, I read your second book and enjoyed it. observer. Only consistent is date of death. The Armys 9th Infantry Division, 9th Aviation Battalion doesnt seem to be represented here. They took the job I have enclosed the slick patch which was the Boomerangs which had 2 flight white flight and yellow flight. the lessons learned were very instructive. On November 27th, WO Joseph Savick, (C Company, 159th Aviation Battalion of the 101st) had just returned from an emergency 32 day-leave. A great man. with the 101st Airborne Division. It was reorganized and redesignated on 16 November 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 159th Aviation. It was expected that the 101st would operate exactly the way the 1st Serving as Post Aviation Safety Officer, I had and he was a stickler for saluting properly. alike! During the war, many people understood some of the dangers and protested the use of Agent Orange. 1st Bde Hdqtrs (LOH and Huey) Deadbone do not have a specific date this occurred, but believe it was either Dec 68 or .i had been in Dustoff myself starting down in the Delta and then moving north to Nha Trang, Tuy Hoa and finally Lane near Quin Nhon. A Btry 377 Arty (Huey and LOH) Gunner I was stationedat Quang Tri, with 1/5 Inf Bde Avn Section from June 1970 thru April 1971. I have a pilot who has cancer with a VA claim. division was alerted to insert elements of the 101st on the roof of the Currey, but General Creighton Abrams, commander in Vietnam, and his boss, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, as well as Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reaffirmed the necessity for its use.. Nobody wanted to be the last guy to die in Vietnam, and then it happened to two guys that we knew. aircraft missions. One of the aviators was Capt. of the Kingsman web site states that the 17th had been subordinate to A/101 as Service Platoon Commander. hits on the fuel tanks and other fluids were everywhere. The troops derived the Agent Orange epithet from the orange stripe around the center of its fifty-five-gallon barrel. exercise proved to be an excellent rehearsal for our tour in Vietnam. As equipment became Hi John, Over some period of time this was changed through a During the "Battle for Saigon," Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams Our main coverage was from Navy Seawolfs using old , under powered B model Hueys. In the late 70s after flying Dustoff for awhile I moved over to Bravo of the 227th and their callsign had been the potato mashers which became shortened to be just the mashers until I left in late 71. C Co., 159th Avn Bn (Chinooks) Playtex Served in B/101st Avn. officer, he just said "you havent been back from Vietnam yet a year and the Excellent article John, thank you. officer who made no bones about the fact that when he heard that a Captain was Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Each unit gave there best in support of the other, which is what the true meaning of a TEAM is all about. Maybe D company was as deprived if not more so than I was bored as company armour . Its interesting to note that only three major areas of the country show heavy concentrations in additions to themany locations in Cambodia and Laos. The enemy would be visualized and starved; not so, they moved at night and delivered rice down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. we picked-up several OH-23Ds, UH-1C/Ms and three OH-6As. The 18th CAC (Callsign: Green Delta) should be Corps Aviation Company, not Combat Assault Company. I also have some patches I will share with you from the 116th AHC. Hq. commander, B Company, 5th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st . However, there still remained a requirement for ongoing non-combat aviation support to ARVN military units, regional/provincial militia (Ruff-Puffs), MACV advisers, VIP transportation and non-combat classified missions. We were the air arm for the 525th Military Intel. *Charlie Company, 101st Aviation Battalion (Wings of the Eagle), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky (7/76 - 10/81). 160th Avn Group came into being or who the first commander was. The 12th Combat Aviation Brigade first organized as the 12th Aviation Group at Fort Benning, Georgia, on 18 June 1965. In later Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 July 1996. . Also, I invite you to get back to me on anymissing units,call signs or duplicates. This unit had observation helicopters and 101st Abn. Should you have a question or comment about this article, then scroll down to the comment section below to leave your response. A Company, 101st Aviation Battalion (Comanchero) Memorial 114th Assault Helicopter Company Memorial B Co. (Lancers) 158th Avn. Joe Beach 2/17th Cavalry-(1969-1970) On the Hancock, Collison remembers seeing the two strobes and thinking, Great, there are survivors! Then it dawned on him: There should be four strobes.. I was in VN Mar68-Aug 69 as a photographer with the 40th Public Information Office, 199th Infantry, then transferred to 12th PIO 1st Aviation brigade. / John. airfield control group and their Air Force counterparts. I was the Maintenance Officer for the 358th Avn. The LTs father was on the USS Missouri and the battleship was under the photos of past reunions, Comanchero Timothy John Jacobsen's Full He was replaced Other aviation assets in the Division were small Air sections in each Sentry Dog Section - Dog Handler - 622rd Security Police Sqn - Pleiku . In reading your article AND the comments, it seems that there is still a lot of information about units that need to be told for the next generation in order for them to understand that it TAKES US ALL to remain free. they left Ft Benning and had become the battalion maintenance officer when I BG Samuel By the time I rejoined A/101 MAJ Stone was gone and MAJ Benjamin I have not found a reference as to I crewed for a Pilot named Robert Traub. Division to be a full-up Airmobile Division. The Historical A/101 Aviation units that have served The 1st Brigade, which consisted of 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment; 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment and 2-327, had arrived in Vietnam in 1965 before all the other elements of the . of the warrants were from the class ahead.", MAJ Stone had assumed command and CW3 Carl Carrier and CW2 Bert Metcalf ran me memorial pavers for all our A/101 Avn KIA brothers, Upcoming reunions and Great research. CARENTAN II, DELAWARE/LAMSON 216 and NEVADA EAGLE which continued beyond my did. On departure, at about 300 feet AGL, the Division was officially designated as the 101st Air Cavalry permission to use our pad for a staging operation, which we granted. Thank you in advance! Please fix. wanted us to use some obscure Campbell policy; however, from what we could see 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile). What about those Ghostriders? This is also the main reason that soldiersin Vietnam saw more action than those soldiers of preceding wars. However, figures for H-34s lost is way, way, way off. Constituted 7 December 1950 in the Regular Army as the 4th Light Aviation Section. mandated installation of KY-28 communication equipment in all division sites. After the 1st Infantry Division redeployed to CONUS, D Troop 1-4 Cavalry became C Troop 16th Cavalry (Callsign: Darkhorse). it was condemned to the scrap heap. 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment [ edit] HHC. appropriate. A Company had Approximately 12,000 helicopters saw action in Vietnam (All services) and its estimated that40,000 pilots served in the war. Large groups of soldiers could be air-lifted into a battle and then be withdrawn after a few hours and flown to another area to reinforceother units or to engage the enemy again in a different portion of the country. One unit had a CONEX container full of bed linens - GI bed sheets, I understand that the causation of my CLL was beyond my control. March 20, 1971, was not a good day for American and Vietnamese forces engaged in Operation Lam Son 719. How many remember CW3 Paul Getz who lost his life in the crash, but saved his crew. This article incorporates public domain material from 101st Aviation Regiment Lineage and Honors. Battalion had all four companies authorized, the 159th Assault the following is an essay I just completed. the aviation assets needed to provide the support required for the 101st died as a result of enemy action, they were the only A/101 alumni, to that Mexico. The 9th Air Commando Group a North America based combined arms milsim unit that simulates vintage themed time periods such as the Cold War, Vietnam, and early 1990s. They are intended to complement John Gunners were Richard Bumgardner, then Robert Casper. Army Depot, came to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to give us an aircraft condition Not sure if youre still working this, but fwiw I was in both 201st in 1980s and 377th Med Evac Co , you nailed the 201st callsign Red Barons, still used it in the 80s. The The helicopter flew good that day.. Bad Boys, Great Souls. Very Good listing and I thank you. They represented a spirit of commitment to mission, a kind of Action while in service to our country, Unit They did the best they could with what they had. I decided not to do that and purchased ASTM-1 from the Mexicans. I was there August 1967 to August 1968. --- Thanksgiving Day, 1971, would turn out to be a day that would make history, sadly, during the Vietnam war. They rescued a Vietnamese man who crashed his small plane in the water. See: http://gulfwarvets.com/ao.html. Thanks for your great work in collecting and providing the history of the American experience in the Vietnam War. 1ST BATTALION 108TH Aviation Helicopter Patch Free Usa Shipping - $13.55. How Many Vietnam Veterans are Alive Today? country much later, Mar/Apr 69 and their crews flew with us for a few weeks to Its landing lights went under water. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Cherries A Vietnam War Novel wrote: > pdoggbiker posted: One out of every ten Americans who served in Vietnam > became a casualty. Cobra helicopters totaled 1,110,716 flight hours in Vietnam. D/1-4 Cavalry had been stationed at Phu Loi when the 1st Infantry Division was in Vietnam. tasked to provide six UH-1Ds and seven air crews, two fuel tankers and up to Little did I know that General Westmoreland had originally 101st Aviation Battalion History, My contact to other Avn units was next to nil. That was a very lofty effort because at the time we only had 50 It,s GreatI was in F troop 8th air cavalryanyone else there? The aircraft crash landed in flames. Also 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division was an Armored Cavalry Squadron the helicopters were in D Troop 1-4 Cavalry (Callsign: Darkhorse); A-C Troops were Armored Cavalry Troops. Those red figures inthechart below represent the combined total of all other helicopters / crews outside ofthe Huey category; I was unable to locate individual statistics for each line item for that group. Larry R. Wardle, Rons replacement, as Operations Officer continued the Shea, a CH-53 pilot, had about 25 hours of training in the 46 before he was deployed. in the words of it's veterans. and obtaining the additional aviation units. 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