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No, he was 1st Sgt. ... (reply)

JimT — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:40:46 +0000

Old Memories ... (reply)

Creeker — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:28:32 +0000

6th picture down. Is that a Sgt Major?

My phone does not access the internet ... (reply)

Catoosa — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 03:48:00 +0000

Jim, I feel your pain with phones. I too am a neanderthal about modern electronic gizmos. I have an old flip phone that I make calls on now and then (when I absolutely have to) and SOMETIMES I can receive one. I don't text. My wife, bless her, does all that for me when it has to be done.

Back to back we face the past.
- MOFAC

My phone does not access the internet ... (reply)

JimT — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:18:44 +0000

it doesn't run apps

it don't have a gps

it won't receive photo though it does have a camera .. sort of

it makes calls and receives calls

it texts .. barely ..

it's an old flip phone and I have hopes it will outlive me because I ain't getting one of those new phones ... I would rather have a hemroidectomy than try to mess with one of them.

If I could have my way I would have a land line and a phone machine so I could screen the calls.

Thanks. I turned them around for you. (reply)

Paul — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:29:38 +0000

The phone generates code in the picture that tells which way it was oriented (to the best of the phone's addled ability to do so) when the picture was snapped. I've NO idea how to modify that in a phone (Android and Apple are guaranteed to have different approaches), but as Jim says - it's easy on a computer. I don't see how you guys do forums on your phones... that must make me an old fogey.

I don't know either .. but it's an easy fix on the computer. (reply)

JimT — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:14:42 +0000

Thanks. I turned them around for you. (reply)

Slow Hand — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:13:28 +0000

Appreciate it. I have no idea what my pictures randomly post sideways. I’ve heard it’s something to do with how the phone is turned when you take the pic but I’m not sure if that’s true and if it isX no idea how to adjust it on my phone!

Thanks. I turned them around for you. (reply)

JimT — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:25:03 +0000

Picture of dad… (reply)

Slow Hand — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:47:13 +0000

I think this was at Ft Rucker. With the BFA on the M60, it was definitely state side. Dad is celebrating his 78th birthday today, hopefully with a ride on his new motorcycle we picked up Monday. He’s not been on one side he had a bad wreck in May and broke his neck!

Saw the OV-1's cousin the OV-10 Bronco last month... (reply)

A K Church — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:48:41 +0000

Next to Davis-Monthan AFB. Then I saw several a few years back at my local airport. Several Broncos on the way back from spotting duties in the California fires.

Along with it, another of my all time faves, the Twin Beech, which had been doing the same job.

If he didn’t; you’d never know! (reply)

JimT — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:10:07 +0000

If he didn’t; you’d never know! (reply)

Slow Hand — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:05:24 +0000

Because I wouldn’t be here!!

I'm glad to hear he made it back OK. (nt) (reply)

JimT — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:23:06 +0000

It could be wild. We got very good at aircraft ID... (reply)

Hobie — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:34:49 +0000

Doing what I did in my first tour we knew when to be watchful...

Old Memories ... (reply)

Slow Hand — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:28:37 +0000

My dad was at Rucker for a bit. I’m. It sure when he was there but probably 67 or 68. He ended up in Pleiku, Vietnam and made it home safely.

Yes .. I read about some of those. The attack I mentioned (reply)

JimT — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:35:38 +0000

was close to home as we were in the compound of the guys who got killed. Our compound was shot up one night. The commies managed to kill a jeep and shoot up some buildings but no one was hit.

Actually, those things happened even as late as 1975-1976 at (reply)

Hobie — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:12:45 +0000

least and they tried infiltration by tunnels and floating down the river up until at least 1981 when I left the second time.

OV-1 Mohawk. Really cool airplane! (reply)

JimT — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:40:01 +0000

In 1967 the Han River flooded and we had to evacuate the island. We packed up everything and moved to Kimpo Air Base which was also the International Airport. We were there 4 months while the river went down and our base was dried out and repaired.

When we moved into Kimpo the OV-1's were the last to arrive. There were 3 assigned to the 55th. They came in to the field in tight formation, landing 1 ... 2 ... 3 maybe 100 yards apart. As they rolled out Number Two went full throttle, lifted up and did a loop and landed behind #3! Then they all rolled into the tie down area, pulled up and then backed into their respective bays. They impressed the Korean Air Force that was based at Kimpo.

Yes ... OV-1 Mohawk. Really cool airplane! (reply)

JimT — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:27:53 +0000

The long black tube on the side is a Side-Looking Radar. They flew the DMZ every night watching for infiltrators. We lost quite a few guys in early '67 to a North Korean team that came in and set up a heavy machine near one of the camps on the DMZ. When they lined up for chow the North Koreans opened up on them. Killed at least 50 if I remember correctly. Then beat it back across the DMZ and got away. Our government filed a protest. As far as I can tell nothing was ever done about it.

It was during this period that is now called "The Korean DMZ Conflict" and is also referred to as the Second Korean War by some. This was a series of low-level armed clashes between North Korean forces and the forces of South Korea and the United States, largely occurring between 1966 and 1969 at the Korean DMZ.

Ah ! 1967...... (reply)

RayLee — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:24:40 +0000

Three big things happened that summer.....

The I.D.F. captured Jerusalem.

The Forrestal shot itself.

And Ma squeezed me out into the light of day two months early. Four pounds/four ounces.