Recent content by Mat

They all disappeared. Total 50 cals on the airfield were 4 .. I do know from experience you can destroy a 50 cal very easy without one. Unfortunately when mine self destructed I was under fire directly from under me, one round fired and it never fired again. Depot at Vung Tau gave us a...

Nice to know innocent people were not injured or involved.

One of the largest competitors in the south southwest was Kerrville Bus Coach. My last bus ride was a couple days after Christmas 1967. I was reporting in at Duncanville Tx DFW AD Headquarters. A very narrow rectangular piece of property that originally had been a USAF early warning Radar...

I guess the alternative would be to leave the heathens in charge in Iran. Not a lot of visionaries around the world today. I can't think of anything more dangerous than to have a cult having nuclear weapons. It would be another proxy state that would not hesitate to use one.

I believe there is absolutely nothing free from the guberment. They have no money to hand out, that's why it went up to 202 a month in Jan. I will live much longer simply having enough to eat each month rather than helping some doctor pay for his corvette. I do have a slight advantage that I...

First time I heard California Dreaming was when I was in Monterey 1966 on a pass after checking in at Fort Ord for Infantry Training.

Agreed on your perspective. I think all of us realized how short life really is. Making so many Tributes for others came full circle when I would find one that had passed away. I felt good inside I had given to them something their family could print frame and remember him. Out of the many I...

Several of our pilots wrote paperback books about their experience and one sent me a copy Noise of The Blade. I thumbed through it but never sat and read the book, I didn't need to :) He retired and became involved in veteran affairs helping people in his region or local area, still does it...

There were two companies on my airfield, the 336th which I served the first year, then the 121st the other company I served 2 years. All the helicopters are mixed from both companies. The T-Birds was the gunship platoon which I flew as gunner right side on 38. While in the 121st I also flew...