ROLL CALL: Army Aviators past and present, enlisted and officers(now open to all branches)

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - ROLL CALL: Army Aviators past and present, enlisted and officers(now open to all branches)

Posted: 12/29/2002 11:24:42 AM EDT

Lets hear something about yourselves, MOS, types of aircraft you flew places you were stationed!

I'll start the ball rolling. I was a 67V OH-58 Crew Chief stationed my entire career in Germany, Illesheim and Katterbach. The pic is from the spring of 1986, a field problem "somewhere" out in the German country side, me and my aircraft. Sorry about the quality, it's a digital pic of the original.

Lets see some pics of you and your aircraft!

[img]http://community.webshots.com/image4/2/90/54/58629054hQIGOp_ph.jpg[/img]

Moved to General Discussion because the Hall of Heros seems DEAD! I know there are more aviators out there. I'll even open it up to aircrews of all branches!

Posted: 12/29/2002 11:31:16 AM EDT

[#1]

Navy NFO. P3Corion. Persian Gulf, All over WestPac. Somalia 1993.

Posted: 12/29/2002 11:39:58 AM EDT

[#2]

I was a 67R Apache crewchief. stationed at Ft. Hood TX(D co 1/227th Air Cav.), Katterback Army Airfield, (Dco 2/1 avn). Also did the whole "Big Sandbox" thing
(Attached to the 2nd Armored Cav Regiment).

Did alot of riding in UH-60 Blackhawks mostly cuz I liked to get some flight time and was dumb enough to volunteer to "ride the gun".

[img]http://www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0QwAJA7ESIGao*Q5ALVOQJ*uRpfW*gIYdcA3H*2O5QPK21RigPdi3bvInsyLbKiLzLn6NqD0890Qc1eVHPCYJvPLVcUBfqWfFG4oC4spRiXw/Picture-032.jpg?dc=4675398120673480487[/img]

Posted: 12/29/2002 12:55:38 PM EDT

[#3]

Huey/BlackHawk CE and OH 58 AO. 8 years active, 6 years Guard so far.

Stationed in Texas (E Co 227th Avn, 1st Cav)
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=3184[/img]

Germany (A Co 12th Combat Aviation Brigade)
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=3183[/img]

Panama (Attached to 320th for a bit from Hood)
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=3185[/img]

Georgia (F Co 24th Aviation)

And have done Guard time with the following units:

Iowa (Troop D 1/113 Cav)
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=3180[/img]

Washington (B Co 1-185th Avn)
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=3181[/img]

Minnesota (A Co 2-147th Avn)
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=3182[/img]

Soon to be...
[img]http://photos.ar15.com/WS_Content/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=1373[/img]

Thanks to some great work by Zardoz!

Aviator

Posted: 12/29/2002 12:59:38 PM EDT

[#4]

67 s oh-58d
hunter army airfield georgia
task force viper/g co. 227 hanau germany
4/2 cav ft.bragg

Posted: 12/29/2002 1:00:55 PM EDT

[#5]

Hunter was a pretty good place to be stationed.

Aviator

Posted: 12/29/2002 1:05:40 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Hunter was a pretty good place to be stationed.

Aviator

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loved hunter i was in Aco24 th avn 88 -90

Posted: 12/29/2002 1:34:27 PM EDT

[#7]

Crew Chief 1st Air Cav 227th C Co Vietnam 1967-1968

Posted: 12/29/2002 1:43:54 PM EDT

[#8]

Huey Crew Chief: Gco 227th in Germany and Ft Bragg.

Cobra Pilot: Pa and Oh National Guard.

OH-58s since they took the Snakes away.

Bell Jet Ranger for CBS station in Cleveland OH.

Posted: 12/29/2002 1:45:27 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Huey Crew Chief: Gco 227th in Germany and Ft Bragg.

Cobra Pilot: Pa and Oh National Guard.

OH-58s since they took the Snakes away.

Bell Jet Ranger for CBS station in Cleveland OH.

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leo whats hapeen

Posted: 12/29/2002 1:57:51 PM EDT

[#10]

Here is last summer in Kuwait, 67T, A Co 1-147th, WI Natl Guard. As a 76Y supply clerk I was in 5/6 Cav, 12th Avn in Wiesbaden Germany. A few years in a non-aviation units in between the two.
[img]http://album.gunsnet.net/data/mpiersma/208_p7143.jpg[/img]

Found another shot, Billy Bad-ass!
[img]http://album.gunsnet.net/data/mpiersma/208_p4907.jpg[/img]

Posted: 12/29/2002 1:58:09 PM EDT

[#11]

Good, Whos this?

Posted: 12/29/2002 2:03:02 PM EDT

[#12]

john

Posted: 12/29/2002 2:09:37 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Here is last summer in Kuwait, 67T, A Co 1-147th, WI Natl Guard. As a 76Y supply clerk I was in 5/6 Cav, 12th Avn in Wiesbaden Germany. A few years in a non-aviation units in between the two.
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When were you in Wiesbaden? I was attached to the Flight Det up there in the late 90s and early 90s. Did you know Logan Stickle?

Aviator

Posted: 12/29/2002 2:10:53 PM EDT

[#14]

I was in the US Army from 8/87 - 8/91.
My MOS was 67T (Blackhawk Crew Chief) but when I arrived at Fort Carson, Colorado, there were no UH-60's. I worked in a maintenance platoon while I was there, mostly worked on Cobra's. The unit was 1st Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment. That lasted not quite 24 months.
Then I was lucky enough to get assigned to another maintenance platoon in Panama, just after Operation Just Cause in early '90. That unit was 228th Aviation. Also, while there, I did TDY in Soto Cano Airbase in Honduras for a few months.
ETS through Fort Jackson, S.C.
I had to get my orders out to type all this.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth.

ColtC.

P.S. I never was a "Crew Chief", always in maintenance platoons, tear apart, inspect, reassemble. That was fun too though.

Posted: 12/29/2002 3:16:45 PM EDT

[#15]

its nice to find old friends that you have not heard from in 10 years![:D]

Posted: 12/29/2002 3:28:14 PM EDT

[#16]

Spent 22 fun filled years in Army Aviation. Eighteen as a 67N and four as a 67T. Mechanic, TI, FI, SI, PSG.
Pirmasens, Germany (22nd Avn Det)
Ft Rucker, AL (C Trp 1/6 Cav, D 229th Attack)
Heidelburg, Germany (207th Avn)
Ft Campbell, KY (123rd CAB, 6/101 Avn)
Sinai, Egypt (South Camp)
Ft Campbell, KY (6/101Avn)
Panama (Howard AFB, A Co 1-228th)
Ft Campbell, KY (A Co 4-101 Avn)

Also Squeezed in 6 months at Soto Cano, Honduras and another 6 in Managua, Nicaragua with a few funfilled weeks in El Salvador back in the shooting days.

Posted: 12/29/2002 4:21:38 PM EDT

[#17]

67u and 67 h or t I forget.

Crewed a Huey in the OKARNG, (C Co, 1st Bn, 245 Aviation Special Operation, Airborne.) and was MOS trained in the Chinook, but then went to be NCOIC of Flight Ops, so never got to crew a Chinook.

I loved flying. We flew about 90% of the time at night under NVG's.

The only Special operations battalian in the Whole US National Gaurd system.

Cut down alot of dope in the summers too. [:)]

TXLEWIS

Posted: 12/29/2002 4:29:29 PM EDT

[#18]

Hey, I also found some pretty nice looking Nametags for flight uniforms at [url]www.nametags4u.com[/url]

Here is my new one..

[img]http://photos.ar15.com/WS_Content/ImageGallery/IG_LoadImage.asp?iImageUnq=3186[/img]

Aviator

Posted: 12/29/2002 4:41:51 PM EDT

[#19]

68G Aircraft Structural Repair Dco. 34th. Spt. Bn. 6th. ACCB. Ft. Hood. (Wagonmasters)

[url]http://www.chinookcrews.com/[/url]

[img]http://www.saundersinsignia.com/images/897BL.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.military-stuff.com/patch-chinook_small.jpg[/img]

Posted: 12/29/2002 4:53:53 PM EDT

[#20]

well the name should speek for it self. 67N and 67Y (cobras). I am still a crew chief in the GA guard.

Posted: 12/29/2002 5:04:44 PM EDT

[#21]

68f10w5 Aircraft Electrician "Spark Chaser"

85-89 Fort Polk LA. 303rd TAMCO / 5th Avn. Regt.

89-90 Camp Laguardia, South Korea 2ID

90-93 Ft. Hood TX. 4/6 CAV.

I have a ton of pictures that I took in the service that I need to post on here one day. I even have pictures of our airfeild at Ft. Polk after a small tornado went through totalled a bunch of aircraft.

Helicopters don't fly.....They beat the air into submission.

Posted: 12/29/2002 5:09:34 PM EDT

[#22]

I was a tandem rotor helicopter mechanic 67S20. In Nam I worked on the CH47 Chinook, stateside I worked on the CH 21 Flying Banana Ft Belvoir Va.

I finished my hitch at Hunter Army Airfield Savanna Ga. 1968

Sorry about the pics, mine are slides that I need to get converted to CD.

[img]http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid44/p62f7c8ba56dce4e4ac1b03a8392295c1/fcddd808.jpg[/img]

Posted: 12/29/2002 6:57:58 PM EDT

[#23]

UH-1H Maintenance Test Pilot.

1st CAV with Aviator, F/227, E/227, HHC CAB

ROK with B/3-501st AVN

101st ABN(AA) with H/159th

Flew Hueys the whole time (not counting TH-55's in flight school) except for some Cobra test flights in the ROK and a UH-60 experiment as a lab rat for the Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Rucker.

Spent the whole time in maintenance, fixing EVERY airframe the Army had, and a couple the Airforce had.

Ross

Posted: 12/29/2002 7:50:02 PM EDT

[#24]

I never had anything to do with Army Aviation (although I have spent more time on Rucker than most army pilots), but I have lived under the traffic patterns of Lowe, Cairnes(sp?), Hunter, Wiesbaden Airbase, Campbell AAF, and Simmons. My pop was a pilot, AH and UH 1's, 58's, and 60's. He is retired now, his last combat hours were in Saudi, with 2/17th, one of the last regular army units to fly snakes into battle.

Edited to add: I have bad eyes so they wouldn't give me a helicopter to fly, and I never cared for turning wrenches, so it was Signal Corps for me.

Posted: 12/29/2002 8:27:13 PM EDT

[#25]

US Navy - P3C Orion Acoustic Sensor Operator - Sensor 1 with cross train for Sensor 3. Aircrew Wings and 1000 fight hours. Most with VP48, Crew 4.

Based: NAS Jacksonville, NAS Moffett Field, Kadena AB - and points west (Diego Garcia)

1977 to 1981

Posted: 12/29/2002 10:13:30 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
US Navy - P3C Orion Acoustic Sensor Operator - Sensor 1 with cross train for Sensor 3. Aircrew Wings and 1000 fight hours. Most with VP48, Crew 4.

Based: NAS Jacksonville, NAS Moffett Field, Kadena AB - and points west (Diego Garcia)

1977 to 1981

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There goes the neighborhood.... [;)]

Speaking of Squids, I wonder if Frank Squid was in Aviation while in the Navy.... [;D]

Aviator

Posted: 12/30/2002 6:54:19 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
US Navy - P3C Orion Acoustic Sensor Operator - Sensor 1 with cross train for Sensor 3. Aircrew Wings and 1000 fight hours. Most with VP48, Crew 4.

Based: NAS Jacksonville, NAS Moffett Field, Kadena AB - and points west (Diego Garcia)

1977 to 1981

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There goes the neighborhood.... [;)]

Speaking of Squids, I wonder if Frank Squid was in Aviation while in the Navy.... [;D]

Aviator

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Whew... for a second there I though that this was a Army only topic - And I finally made it....

...That's right I posted a reply to a topic and I didn't kill the thread, ummm...yet.

Foxtrot Sierra, (Frank Squid) - you are on course, on glide path, cleared for landing, call the ball!

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