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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:29:06 PM EDT
I thought some of you guys would like to see some of these pictures i found while digging through my fathers old Marine photo albums. first off, my father served as a first lieutenant in a weapons platoon of E company, of the 2nd battalion, of the 2nd regiment , of the 2nd marine division. he never served in any wars , but i still commend is service. While on the USS Guadalcanal in 1976 he witnessed a helicopter explosion on the deck and was able to photograph it.
4 men lost their lives in this explosion. 
There wasn't supposed to be any flight operations while men on deck, but someone thought it would be ok to let them men have a bbq after the last helicopter left for the day. shortly after leaving, a CH-46 returned due to major vibrations and exploded right on top of the deck. he was able to snap a few of these. 
sorry for pictures of a pictures. |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:32:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:32:54 PM EDT
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wow! that's crazy! thanks for sharing
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:34:02 PM EDT
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Your father was in during a tough time for the military - post Vietnam / Carter years. That was maximum suckage. I came in during the Reagan years and listened to the old timers tell me about how good things were compared to the past. |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:35:23 PM EDT
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Thanks for sharing those pictures. From Condition White to Oh Sh*t! Oh Sh*t! Oh Sh*t!
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:39:31 PM EDT
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Your father was in during a tough time for the military - post Vietnam / Carter years. That was maximum suckage. I came in during the Reagan years and listened to the old timers tell me about how good things were compared to the past. thank you for your service |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:50:41 PM EDT
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Wow. That's a step back. Timeless priceless photos
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:53:54 PM EDT
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That's nuts.
Great pics OP. |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:57:59 PM EDT
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thank you for your service Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Your father was in during a tough time for the military - post Vietnam / Carter years. That was maximum suckage. I came in during the Reagan years and listened to the old timers tell me about how good things were compared to the past. thank you for your service Didn't really do anything. Never had to shoot at anyone and even better, nobody ever shot at me. |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:58:53 PM EDT
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Thanks for posting the pics.
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:59:39 PM EDT
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Your father was in during a tough time for the military - post Vietnam / Carter years. That was maximum suckage. I came in during the Reagan years and listened to the old timers tell me about how good things were compared to the past. Well said, and very true |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 7:59:57 PM EDT
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Didn't really do anything. Never had to shoot at anyone and even better, nobody ever shot at me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Your father was in during a tough time for the military - post Vietnam / Carter years. That was maximum suckage. I came in during the Reagan years and listened to the old timers tell me about how good things were compared to the past. thank you for your service Didn't really do anything. Never had to shoot at anyone and even better, nobody ever shot at me. Still a vet in my book |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 8:01:27 PM EDT
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Wow.
Scan those, that's rare history. 
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Posted: 1/20/2015 8:02:30 PM EDT
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Wow. Scan those, that's rare history. I plan on it soon |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 8:02:43 PM EDT
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Fire, Fire, Fire. Fire on the flight deck.. Something along those lines.
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Posted: 1/20/2015 8:04:02 PM EDT
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Please contact the Museum of Naval Aviation and offer copies of those pictures to them.
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Posted: 1/20/2015 8:08:37 PM EDT
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Please contact the Museum of Naval Aviation and offer copies of those pictures to them. I will cirtainly look to it. I'll let my father know asap |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 8:37:02 PM EDT
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As posted, some scary stuff going on there! |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 9:11:03 PM EDT
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I'll have to post the rest. Some of it shows the wreckage . I found posting those may be in bad taste and disrespectful of those who were lost
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Posted: 1/20/2015 9:17:35 PM EDT
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That is the last ship I floated on. Six months of '93-'94.
We were up in the Adriatiac for a few days when we got the call to head down to float off the coast of Somalia. This in response to events in Mogadishu. I was fortunate in that I was part of a group that flew off the ship while it transited the Suez. We weren't any kind of high-speed group. We did about two hours in Egypt, a day or two in Mombasa, a few days in Bahrain, and finally into Mogadishu. Even in peace-time, these floats are usually memorable for one reason or another, as is evidenced by those pics. .
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Posted: 1/20/2015 9:29:59 PM EDT
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That is the last ship I floated on. Six months of '93-'94. We were up in the Adriatiac for a few days when we got the call to head down to float off the coast of Somalia. This in response to events in Mogadishu. I was fortunate in that I was part of a group that flew off the ship while it transited the Suez. We weren't any kind of high-speed group. We did about two hours in Egypt, a day or two in Mombasa, a few days in Bahrain, and finally into Mogadishu. Even in peace-time, these floats are usually memorable for one reason or another, as is evidenced by those pics. . So cool. Thanks for sharing |
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Posted: 1/20/2015 10:24:19 PM EDT
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Geez that would have scared the hell outta me! Thanks for sharing bikerman.
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Posted: 1/20/2015 10:54:06 PM EDT
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Thanks for posting.
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Posted: 1/20/2015 11:01:24 PM EDT
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Thanks for posting. |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 8:13:00 AM EDT
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thanks guys. ill let him know
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Posted: 1/21/2015 8:48:35 AM EDT
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I was on that one, late 70's. Also the Guam as far as Helo-platforms go. Much better ride than LSTs (damn amphibs, hated bobbing around like a cork).
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Posted: 1/21/2015 9:00:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Your father was in during a tough time for the military - post Vietnam / Carter years. That was maximum suckage. I came in during the Reagan years and listened to the old timers tell me about how good things were compared to the past. |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 9:16:30 AM EDT
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I was on that one, late 70's. Also the Guam as far as Helo-platforms go. Much better ride than LSTs (damn amphibs, hated bobbing around like a cork). funny you say that. my father told me story's that he spent many a night sea sick on that ship |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 9:30:01 AM EDT
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Didn't really do anything. Never had to shoot at anyone and even better, nobody ever shot at me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Your father was in during a tough time for the military - post Vietnam / Carter years. That was maximum suckage. I came in during the Reagan years and listened to the old timers tell me about how good things were compared to the past. thank you for your service Didn't really do anything. Never had to shoot at anyone and even better, nobody ever shot at me. Don't knock it till you try it 
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Posted: 1/21/2015 9:39:34 AM EDT
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Please contact the Museum of Naval Aviation and offer copies of those pictures to them. This, and is that one of the flight crew of the second helo in mid air? |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 10:40:40 AM EDT
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This, and is that one of the flight crew of the second helo in mid air? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Please contact the Museum of Naval Aviation and offer copies of those pictures to them. This, and is that one of the flight crew of the second helo in mid air? yes he was jumping out . im pretty sure only the crew was lost, nobody else. |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 10:48:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was on that one, late 70's. Also the Guam as far as Helo-platforms go. Much better ride than LSTs (damn amphibs, hated bobbing around like a cork). Otherwise, that float was remarkable only in that we went straight through the Med and up into the Adriatic. We stayed up in there just about the whole float. The UN countries were flying relief flights into Sarajevo at the time. There were two beer days. If at sea for a solid 60 days, you get two beers up on the flight deck. I didn't go for it, so couldn't tell you what kind of beer it was. Probably Black Label from the seventies. Did six months on the Raleigh (LPD) in '86-'87. Extended for a couple weeks because Terry Waite got kidnapped. The year after that, did 6 months on the Shreveport, another LPD. .
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Posted: 1/21/2015 10:52:57 AM EDT
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damn
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Posted: 1/21/2015 10:54:10 AM EDT
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I did 6 months on the Guam the year before the Guadalcanal. We lost a CH-53 and a few Marines on that one. We were still in the Atlantic when the -53 left the flight deck headed for somewhere in the west of the African continent. They never made it. Otherwise, that float was remarkable only in that we went straight through the Med and up into the Adriatic. We stayed up in there just about the whole float. The UN countries were flying relief flights into Sarajevo at the time. There were two beer days. If at sea for a solid 60 days, you get two beers up on the flight deck. I didn't go for it, so couldn't tell you what kind of beer it was. Probably Black Label from the seventies. Did six months on the Raleigh (LPD) in '86-'87. Extended for a couple weeks because Terry Waite got kidnapped. The year after that, did 6 months on the Shreveport, another LPD. . Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was on that one, late 70's. Also the Guam as far as Helo-platforms go. Much better ride than LSTs (damn amphibs, hated bobbing around like a cork). Otherwise, that float was remarkable only in that we went straight through the Med and up into the Adriatic. We stayed up in there just about the whole float. The UN countries were flying relief flights into Sarajevo at the time. There were two beer days. If at sea for a solid 60 days, you get two beers up on the flight deck. I didn't go for it, so couldn't tell you what kind of beer it was. Probably Black Label from the seventies. Did six months on the Raleigh (LPD) in '86-'87. Extended for a couple weeks because Terry Waite got kidnapped. The year after that, did 6 months on the Shreveport, another LPD. . was that ch-53 incident in 81? |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 11:00:26 AM EDT
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We used to lose a lot of Marines on those -46s.
On one of my first two floats (can't remember which) the LHA Saipan was with us. A CH-46 came up off the flight deck and essentially rolled into the top of the big 2 painted on the conning tower. Crashed back down to the deck and I think part of it rolled into the sea. Lost I think 6 Marines in that one. For the longest time after that, Marines flew separately from all their gear. Was in Korea in '84. Was set up on a Korean military airfield, working a project with the US Army GUARDRAIL folks. We were supposed to receive communications in the night. Never got anything. Turned out a -46 had hit a mountain that night and part of the exercise was halted as a result. We lost 18 Marines in that crash. I didn't so much mind -53s. I'd rather walk than fly on a -46. .
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Posted: 1/21/2015 11:11:40 AM EDT
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funny you say that. my father told me story's that he spent many a night sea sick on that ship Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was on that one, late 70's. Also the Guam as far as Helo-platforms go. Much better ride than LSTs (damn amphibs, hated bobbing around like a cork). funny you say that. my father told me story's that he spent many a night sea sick on that ship Though all amphibs were flat bottomed, Helo-carriers were the best rides on an MAU. The real rock and rollers were the LST's. They held the am-tracks in their belly and when you deployed, the back would drop down like a ramp and off you went. They LST's were totally stable compared to the am-tracks. Jumped a couple times in rough seas. Guaranteed by the time you hit land, half the helmets would be filled with puke. Between that stench and the diesel fumes floating in, the sealed hatches, sweating your cahoonas off and everyone asshole to elbow (esp my group as we were weapons (even less space) you didn't care what was out side, you just wanted out. I'd rather hump it then go mechanized. Helos were the best slots on a MAU. Ground pounding off the LPDs (third type in a MAU at the time) was next and mech was the suck. |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 11:16:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: was that ch-53 incident in 81? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I was on that one, late 70's. Also the Guam as far as Helo-platforms go. Much better ride than LSTs (damn amphibs, hated bobbing around like a cork). Otherwise, that float was remarkable only in that we went straight through the Med and up into the Adriatic. We stayed up in there just about the whole float. The UN countries were flying relief flights into Sarajevo at the time. There were two beer days. If at sea for a solid 60 days, you get two beers up on the flight deck. I didn't go for it, so couldn't tell you what kind of beer it was. Probably Black Label from the seventies. Did six months on the Raleigh (LPD) in '86-'87. Extended for a couple weeks because Terry Waite got kidnapped. The year after that, did 6 months on the Shreveport, another LPD. . was that ch-53 incident in 81? No. That would have been '92. This loss was not the crash that you are talking about. This was one were they left the ship and crashed somewhere at sea, unseen. I just looked it up; we lost five in that crash. |
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Posted: 1/21/2015 11:22:24 AM EDT
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WSnip.. to keep it short I didn't so much mind -53s. I'd rather walk than fly on a -46. . I liked sea knights, same with stallions. Better rides then hueys though I liked them to. I really don't care to fly except in Helos. I love it. I always took the gunners door. The best one was a flight of brand new Army Helos. Not sure which type now but they had almost a vertical take off and hover. We called them in for a lift. They wanted to show us the ground nav system. They were tree top level doing about 200 knots then dropped right down to the river. Best ride ever. Had the door on that one too. funny, I hate planes. |
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Posted: 2/5/2015 8:05:03 PM EDT
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No. That would have been '92. This loss was not the crash that you are talking about. This was one were they left the ship and crashed somewhere at sea, unseen. I just looked it up; we lost five in that crash. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was on that one, late 70's. Also the Guam as far as Helo-platforms go. Much better ride than LSTs (damn amphibs, hated bobbing around like a cork). Otherwise, that float was remarkable only in that we went straight through the Med and up into the Adriatic. We stayed up in there just about the whole float. The UN countries were flying relief flights into Sarajevo at the time. There were two beer days. If at sea for a solid 60 days, you get two beers up on the flight deck. I didn't go for it, so couldn't tell you what kind of beer it was. Probably Black Label from the seventies. Did six months on the Raleigh (LPD) in '86-'87. Extended for a couple weeks because Terry Waite got kidnapped. The year after that, did 6 months on the Shreveport, another LPD. . was that ch-53 incident in 81? No. That would have been '92. This loss was not the crash that you are talking about. This was one were they left the ship and crashed somewhere at sea, unseen. I just looked it up; we lost five in that crash.
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Posted: 2/5/2015 8:21:13 PM EDT
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Thanks for sharing.
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Posted: 2/5/2015 11:17:44 PM EDT
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Being in the service is dangerous even in peacetime. RIP.
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