Dates Served and Wartime if any?

[SPANISHVETTS]

SPANISHVETTES hope all has been well with you and yours! Snow piled all over the place here in my area; pretty much had my fill.

Bill

Bill we are ok here. NO Snow here ever. It is a 3 hour trip up to Granada where you can ski and do snow stuff. I forgot how cold it gets up there and cut back across the mountains on the motorcycle last week. 68º on the cost and minus mucho in Granada. By the time I got over the pass my hands were frozen to the handlebars.

My Son is a short-timer now; 101 days and he is out of the Navy.

[hoosierdaddy]

Bill we are ok here. NO Snow here ever. It is a 3 hour trip up to Granada where you can ski and do snow stuff. I forgot how cold it gets up there and cut back across the mountains on the motorcycle last week. 68º on the cost and minus mucho in Granada. By the time I got over the pass my hands were frozen to the handlebars.

My Son is a short-timer now; 101 days and he is out of the Navy.

Spanishvette,

The older I get the less I like winter & all that comes with it. I like the other 3 seasons of the year and I guess that's what keeps me here. Seems I can cool off easier than I can get warm! Just not sure I really want to retire here, but it is hard to pack up, sell out and move out. I guess if I was retired I could choose if I want to go out in the winter. Still looking for land for that dream garage, then I can hibernate in it for the winter. Bet you can't wait for your son to get out of the Navy; did he ever consider it as a career?

MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE US MILITARY,THEIR FAMILIES AND OUR ALLIES

Take care,
Bill

[SPANISHVETTS]

did he ever consider it as a career?

MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE US MILITARY,THEIR FAMILIES AND OUR ALLIES

Take care,
Bill

It was always a career for him. He started off flying F/A18’s. Then he went to Med school on the Navy’s dime and spent the last 8 years paying back the debt. Getting out after 12 years was a major decision… sure he will make more in the civilian sector but for spending only another 8 years on active duty he would have been able to retire with full benefits as an O5 or better.
His decision was one of ideals and I am damn proud of him for making it. I do not think that it is the decision that I would have made but in my life I have made many decisions that my parents would have made differently.
Thanks to this kid our family genes are getting better; My Great-grandfather was a Calvary Officer who led men into battle, my Grandfather was a WWI pilot, my father flew F4Us in the Pacific, I followed suit and so did Ernie until he broke the mold and started fixing people instead of breaking them.

Yeah, I am proud of the kid.

[ImpulseIII]

Andy, 424 and 427 were for several Flag Officers in the Pacific Fleet. I have LOTS of hours in the other 4 as well as all the others in the VR21 fleet. My favorite 118's were 31577 and 31604. Were you in VR21 ??
Frank H.

[navy2kcoupe]

Andy, 424 and 427 were for several Flag Officers in the Pacific Fleet. I have LOTS of hours in the other 4 as well as all the others in the VR21 fleet. My favorite 118's were 31577 and 31604. Were you in VR21 ??
Frank H.

Frank, not to hijack the thread, but I was in the U.S. Army from August 66 thru August 70. Just like round engined prop planes. Multi engine of course! My philosophy is "count the number of engines and divide by 2. If the answer is less than 1, don't board the aircraft!"

[hoosierdaddy]

It was always a career for him. He started off flying F/A18’s. Then he went to Med school on the Navy’s dime and spent the last 8 years paying back the debt. Getting out after 12 years was a major decision… sure he will make more in the civilian sector but for spending only another 8 years on active duty he would have been able to retire with full benefits as an O5 or better.
His decision was one of ideals and I am damn proud of him for making it. I do not think that it is the decision that I would have made but in my life I have made many decisions that my parents would have made differently.
Thanks to this kid our family genes are getting better; My Great-grandfather was a Calvary Officer who led men into battle, my Grandfather was a WWI pilot, my father flew F4Us in the Pacific, I followed suit and so did Ernie until he broke the mold and started fixing people instead of breaking them.

Yeah, I am proud of the kid.

Proud you should be, sounds like he is definently his own man! Flying F/A18's has to be a thrill that you couldn't even begin to describe. Now finishing Med School; all of this singularly would be hard to top but to do it all; just awesome and my hats off to him, damn right you should be proud, damn proud! All we do as parents is plant the seed and if we do that they have to take it from there! My daughter just graduated from college last year and is now an RN, pretty proud of her too, she is a great nurse! Our children are really a reflection of us and nothing can make you feel any better than seeing then do well, in the end what else is there?

Take care my friend, nothing but health, happiness and joy to you and yours. What is your first name anyway, if you don't mind telling me?

Bill

[SPANISHVETTS]

What is your first name anyway, if you don't mind telling me?

Bill

Igeaux pronounced eye-go and yeah; Cajun we be from 7 ó 4 mile north de Bayou.

[sunger]

1965 to 1968, Army, Medic, Vietnam 1967-1968. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

[navy2kcoupe]

1965 to 1968, Army, Medic, Vietnam 1967-1968. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Hey Sunger.....WELCOME HOME BROTHER !
Andy Anderson - April 68 thru Nov 69 in the land of bad things

[hoosierdaddy]

1965 to 1968, Army, Medic, Vietnam 1967-1968. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I hear ya brother; WELCOME HOME and thanks for your service to this great country that we call home and damn proud of it.

Bill

[sunger]

Hey Grump, thanks for the welcome. I'm glad we are here to exchange them.
We wern't popular, but we can now be damn proud.
Best wishes.
Sunger

[sunger]

Thanks Bill, gald to hear from you. Were you there?
Sunger

[hoosierdaddy]

Thanks Bill, gald to hear from you. Were you there?
Sunger

I was in country for 18 months, 66 & 67, 1st Cavalry "Air Mobile" helicopter Crew Chief. I started out with the 101st Air Borne, jumping out of a perfectly flying airplane just didn't trip my trigger a whole lot Also some of the best times of my life and worse! Just glad to have all of my body parts left even though some of them don't work as good as they use to; but I definently feel fortunate and blessed.

GOD BLESS THE US MILITARY; THEIR FAMILIES AND ALL OUR ALLIES.

Bill

[sunger]

You must have spent some time in An Khe if you were with the 1st Cav. I have never been so lost in my life as I was when I stepped out of the back of a chinook onto a dirt runway on my 4th day in country. I was the only passenger on the plane, and the only person at the "airport." Drug my brand new duffle bag up the only road I saw, wearing my brand new fatigues that were soaked in sweat, looking for my company, only to find out they moved a few days before. Got back to the airport, sat on the only bench there for a few hours and got on the first plane that landed. I had no idea where I was going, but I thought anywhere was better than An Khe. I was wrong. I ended up in Duc Pho. Pho, as in woe was me. But there is a lot more to the story that really was fun. That's for another time.
Welcome home to you too friend. I have a special place in my heart for all who were there, and especially for those whose lives flowed onto the awful red soil.
Steve

[hoosierdaddy]

Steve,

I was in An Khe, Da Nang, An Shal Valley, Cam Ran Bay, and other areas that we flew into, over, around and through! I will never forget my first day in country either, landed in Da Nang, met a guys brother that I was in HS was coming home as I was just getting there. I went to HS in a town of 1500 people and run into him; what's the chances of that? Anyway that seems like another life time ago and just like yesterday sometimes. Glad you made it home, my experiences there make me appreicate even more what we have here and how lucky we are not to be fighting here in the streets and country sides. At least for the most part!

Take care and again; WELCOME HOME BROTHER!

Bill