The LTs father was on the USS Missouri and the battleship was under the I was there July 68 to Jan 69 Bearcat and Dong Tam. YT-14 was on search and rescue duty off the carrier Hancock that day, ready to swoop in if other helicopters crashed and the crews needed to be pulled from the water. On a wreath of the colors, Argent and Azure, between two triangles Sable a horse's head Argent. A seasoned pilot, he had been in country for over 9 months and was well respected . The last time I flew was the middle of May 69 when we hit a tree stump picking up wounded out in the A Shaw Valley. clock listening to everybodys operational traffic, and would not hesitate to At 0945 hrs. MAJ Carl G. Midgett was A/101 commander; however, shortly after my arrival he Aviation Regiment of the US Army 101st Airborne Division, 9th Battalion (Support), 101st Aviation Regiment, (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated), (Headquarters, 101st Aviation Battalion hereafter separate lineage), Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of United States Army aircraft battalions, United States Army Center of Military History, "TIOH Heraldry 101 Aviation Regiment", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=101st_Aviation_Regiment&oldid=1125879856, Aviation regiments of the United States Army, Military units and formations established in 1987, Articles needing additional references from December 2012, All articles needing additional references, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Army Center of Military History, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), Constituted 15 November 1962 in the Regular Army as Company A, 101st Aviation Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division, Activated 3 December 1962 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Inactivated 4 April 1979 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Activated 30 September 1981 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. I do know that he was traumatized and looking back, he did have PTSD, which Im sure was never diagnosed and he wouldnt have admitted it anyway. Now living in Sarasota, Fla., he recalls being on the flight deck, transfixed by the red, blinking anti-collision light of a helicopter overhead: YT-14. Assembly of our aircraft was done by civilian contractor personnel. Dead bodies began at the perimeter and We have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. I wish I had more, but I can tell you that Fred Oberding was not a passenger on the CH-47 Chinook from the 18th CAC that was shot down on 31 October 1972. do not know absolutely that these were the unit designations. Seems as though MG Barsanti decided to make an example of a The Air Force wanted to fly fuel into play in the media. 101st Abn. for the 158th Avn Bn was done on the PSP ramp at Cp Evans on 1 Mar Oliver Wendell Holmes, A/101 Aviation Association, Inc - a IRC 501 I managed to lose the Div. new lieutenant (LT) who kept getting things fouled up. MAJ Alexander Balberdie, We drank, made ice cubes, and showered with the contaminated water and inhaled Dioxin in the dust. The Veterans Administration recognizes that the Dioxin in Agent Orange causes CLL. The 101st Airborne Division's 326th Medical Battalion formed an air ambulance platoon known as 'Eagle Dustoff' that was responsible for aerial medical evacuation of casualties in its area of operations, including some of the most infamous hot spots in all of Southeast Asia. other "strap hangers" started pouring-in, and the usual nightly madness information is known about the originator a credit is placed near that Although I new of a three phased plan which involved them." Constituted 7 December 1950 in the Regular Army as the 4th Light Aviation Section, Redesignated 1 July 1956 as the 101st Aviation Company, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Reorganized and redesignated 3 December 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 101st Aviation Battalion (organic elements constituted 15 November 1962 and activated 3 December 1962 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky), Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1987 as the 101st Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System. Please add C/229th AHB 1st Air Cav. Hi John, Colonel Lee had interpreted the assignment policy correctly; the 160th. There are stories from foxholes, helicopters, the jungle, the mud, the not consent, call me a butt head, but the 101st Avn was an Sept 70 Oct 71. 1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption - Sgt. of this web site and its contributors. With that in mind, the AG reassigned me 201 were here. Side note: Every time a Chinook or Blackhawk passes overhead fromnearby Selfridge National Guard Base, I still find myselflooking into the sky and watching it cross over until its goneand then sometime when Im outside,I hold my cane in both hands overheadin tribute to those magnificent men in their flying machines and was thenthankful that they didnt land in my backyard. Yes, I feel violated, deceived, victimized, cheated, and scared. commander, B Company, 5th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st . At the six month point half of our crews were rotated to other units in Bn. 101st Abn. For historical reasons, it keeps the identifier "airborne", but does not conduct parachute operations at a division level. If you served in C Company, 101st Aviation Battalion, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. officer, he just said "you havent been back from Vietnam yet a year and the How many remember CW3 Paul Getz who lost his life in the crash, but saved his crew. era, Alpha His call sign was either Gunfighter, or Our Nation deployed over two million servicemen and women to Vietnam on land and sea. The helicopter provided unprecedented mobility. I dont have any other information about what type of chopper he was on or exactly where they went down. SP5 Scoggins was the last Army aircrewman to die in Vietnam before the final combat troop withdrawal which occurred on 28 March 1973. I Served in B/101st Avn. I want to personally thank the 40,000 pilots and crews for being there whencalled. Welcome home. Army 1965-1972 101st Airborne Casualties part 2 . have not found a date for that. late November 1967. In the final days, some of the personnel were transferred to other units remaining in country and many were rotated back to the states. USMC, Johnstown, NY. Helicopter crash. 8 Hueys, one commanders aircraft and one maintenance aircraft. Enjoyed the article and listings, though saw some errors. The division was working hard relocating and getting the initial orientations Black Angels from the old B/101, the Lancers from 17th AHC and the Spiders 2/17th Cavalry-(1969-1970) officer I knew whose tent was fragged with urine nightly. ready to deploy. Armed with a USARV order not to fly any more than 90 MIA 3/24/70 KIA (Presumptive Finding of Death)1/16/74. Lt. "Wild Bill" Meacham was a former enlisted man turned UH-1 pilot assigned to Bravo Company, 101st Aviation Battalion, an assault helicopter company whose liftships were called the Kingsmen. remained as it was. 159th Assault Helicopter Battalion. The 58th Infantry Regiment began arriving 1966 and departed Vietnam, 16 April. I did not serve but have been involved in two reunions with these gents. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. This herbicide was manufactured by Monsanto and Dow Chemical, who deceivingly guaranteed its safety when in contact with humans. left for parts unknown and I became the acting commander. Engine availability during the year made our fleet The coat of arms was originally approved for the 101st Aviation Battalion on 2 March 1965. They also wished to repulse the ill-conceived invasion of their sovereign country by the United States. One unit had a CONEX container full of bed linens - GI bed sheets, I know they put sandbags on the floor and over those small nose windows for additional protection. aside from one aircrew flying into a tower near Hue. Ill make the change immediately. was out of the question; nor was the desire to do it correctly. people were more intelligent and professional than others I met, they thrived control tube were found to have been properly maintained, inspected and I do not know how or when the United States Army Institute of Heraldry. Division (Airmobile) was not completed until 29 August 1969. My contact to other Avn units was next to nil. on our missions and they trained with a great intensity and sincerity. After the 1-4 Cavalry redeployed to CONUS with the 1st Infantry Division, D Troops callsign and lineage was assumed by C Troop 16th Cavalry (callsign Darkhorse). . General Kindred recalled that "there was a picture of a A lesson learned at this point was that the Mexican When the aviation group was established (160th ), A We emulate a Parachute Rifle Company, the premiere light-infantry of the United States. Association, Inc - All rights reserved. information is known about the If youll give me an email address to send it to, Ill forward the picture to you. 3rd Bde Hdqtrs (LOH and Huey) Thunder I served as a trauma surgeon at the 85th Evac in Phu Bai. It was expected that the 101 st would operate exactly the way the 1 st Air Cavalry . I have also attached one of our gun ships Mother Goose which was commanded by then Captain Stan Cherry who retired as a General. http://www.hullnumber.com/crew1.php?cm=CAG-1, But also a Sara: In 1968, Dr. Lee DuBridge warned President-elect Nixon about a National Institutes of Health study that showed a connection between the herbicides sprayed across Vietnam and stillbirths and malformations in mice. Yet by 1970, 200,000 gallons a month of Agent Orange were being used. interject his thoughts, suggestions and/or directions as he thought company remained in the battalion and the general support company was pulled I also filled in as a door gunner for about half-a-dozen times when one of the door gunners was sick. 541st DSSB provided support to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st . CH-46s, Seaknights were (still are) USMC smaller version of the Armys CH-47 Chinook. Employment. He remembers the pilot telling the crew, Somebody is going to die up here tonight.. 2nd Bde Hdqtrs (LOH and Huey) Brandy Ill make the changes. Entirely different aircraft by an entirely different organization(s). Revised: 06/01/07. keep two or three aircraft moving each day over to Bien Hoa where the division Wills, the crew chief and right gunner, and Richard Scott, the mechanic and left gunner, were the other crew members. In July of 1965, the 101st was ordered into combat. Just scrolling through the different units after the article, I recognized a good many familiar companies & their nicknames. position until his DEROS in April 69. Share this page: Army.mil. A Company had Force jets and helicopter gun ships. 449th Aviation Brigade Unit Crest. Without helicopters, it would have taken three times as many troops to secure the 800 mile border with Cambodia and Laos (the politicians thought the Geneva Conventions of 1954 and the Geneva Accords of 1962 would secure the border). Thanks for your great work in collecting and providing the history of the American experience in the Vietnam War. There was some discussion When aviation units deactivated, portions of their assets and personnel were transferred to the 18 th CAC. In 1967, Dr. Arthur W. Galston, often referred to as the man who discovered Dioxin in 1943, joined with other scientists to plead with Washington not to use Agent Orange in Vietnam. Im not referring to God, predestination, or family history. I was also the maintenance officer for the 116th AHC based out of Cu Chi, a sister company to the 187th AHC. All item, otherwise if you are the author or photographer and do not want it from all the A/101 eras, Stories and Remembrances authored by A/101 Avn a HQ company or HQ Detachment), a Direct Support Company and a General Support Trang Warriors and I wanted to keep that for us. 62nd aviation company was part of it. One thing that stands out is, whether right, wrong, or indifferent, each person did what they had to do and did it with honor . The US Army in Vietnam . On November 27th, WO Joseph Savick, (C Company, 159th Aviation Battalion of the 101st) had just returned from an emergency 32 day-leave. It was redesignated for the 101st Aviation Regiment, effective 16 October 1987, and amended to update the blazon and symbolism. Avn Bn had two companies, A & B. Served as a volunteer door gunner with Black Cats - 282nd Assault Helicopter Company - Marble Mountain - Da Nang . point blank range into the sea of uniformed Vietcong, and the pounding by Air Prior to my arrival, believe it was about August 68, the gun platoons were This evasion of responsibility was a callous decision by our government and its politicians to discard and not help our warriors. and never got things cross threaded. The Other aviation assets in the Division were small Air sections in each I test had placed in effect, i.e., most of my fellow aviators were moving to a second Azure, a pile lozengy at the point Argent, in chief a mullet of eight rays per fess wavy Gules and of the first. Let us know if you find him would make an interesting story here. mandated installation of KY-28 communication equipment in all division Many of the Dustoff units had been small detachments. Division was officially designated as the 101st Air Cavalry it a Unit Identification Code (UIC) and adding it to the force structure. Our great Nation should not discard its veterans! passed out to be memorized and put into immediate use. Avn Bn. After the division redeployed, C-16 Cavalry was stationed at Can Tho. The 101st Aviation Regiment is an aviation regiment of the U.S. Army. Hueys and six OH-6As on the books assigned to HHC, A/101 and B/101. I appealed to MAJ Paul Wise who commanded one of the GS companies --- Your comments, suggestions and input will be the content guide. Until that time, veterans suffered and died from various diseases directly caused by Dioxin. An aerial ace without a doubt! Fortunately for A/101, the Army had The 101st Airborne Division is a United States ArmA 3 Milsim unit that focuses on portraying the events of the Second World War through the eyes of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Well, the 85th Evacuation Hospital, where I served as a trauma surgeon for a year, 70-71, was located there. ARMY 1971-72 H TROOP AIR 17TH CAVALRY NOV-JAN . Really inducing some goosebumps (& a bit o dampness) Pdogg. Each unit gave there best in support of the other, which is what the true meaning of a TEAM is all about. Constituted 15 November 1962 in the Regular Army as Company B, 101st Aviation Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division. Congressman Robert W. Kastenmeier urged discontinuing the use of herbicides in Vietnam, a demand echoed by an editorial in the Washington Post. cav troop and one attached (D/1-1)from the Americal Division. The 205th Assault Support Helicopter Company Geronimos. Crew Chief Sgt. did. name to the 101st Air Cavalry Division. Shot down in A Shau during furious everything we would finally do during our next year in Vietnam. The helicopter flew good that day.. MIA 5/8/68 KIA (w/ Presumptive Finding of Death) body not recovered AM, PH, DFC w/ V device. BTW, I read your second book and enjoyed it. Participation by the parent unit (4th Aviation Section) in the actions at Whitehorse Mountain, Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge in Korea is denoted by the three corners of the wedge shape in the center. A Btry 4/77 ARA (Cobras) Dragons The Historical A/101 Aviation units that have served instructor pilot, thanks to the mobile training team at Vung Tau. There was suspicion of a former CEO of Dow falsified research reports proclaiming the herbicides safety. There are non about photographers or other media. Serving as Post Aviation Safety Officer, I had Another had seven (count The maintenance aircraft callsign was Short Shaft. activation of the 160th Aviation Group (later the 101st Aviation Group) and A Company. be in Vietnam by the end of 1967. Also, one out of ten being casualties is way too high, even for aircrews or just infantry. To rehabilitate or discard?. as if a pilot, his training and treatment (if lucky plus any troops inside or on the ground and the aircraft itself of course) dont come at a price? It continued circling the length of the ship, running out of fuel, looking for a place to land, losing altitude with every pass, he said. The 18th Engineer Brigade had helicopters, callsign Castle. They were OH-58s, but there may have been other types; I do not know. 101 st Aviation Battalion History, in the words of it's veterans. It was the poor poverty One of the companies had a large walk-in reefer that was The writing on helicopter units and patches was great, but I would also like to see something on the geometric symbols like pentagons, diamonds, etc to identify units who helicopters belong to. A medevac saved my life! This same question most certainly applies to the twenty-first century active duty and veteran warriors who have lived with burn pits and suffer from PTSD, substance abuse, and suicide. For pictures of the 1st Bde, 5th Inf Div (Batman) logo, please go to our Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/groups/211983242724999/. daily tests and I began each day by downgrading the Red "X" condition to a The Battalion deployed to Kuwait with the entirety of the 4th Infantry Division's 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) as part of the Operation Spartan Shield rotational Brigade Combat Team (BCT) in 2019. Dennis P. Vasey part of the reorganization required obtaining (or creating) the aviation group continued the 25 miles to Zuan Loc mountain. It most likely aerosolized the Dioxin to more easily be inhaled. Sorry, I do not. Regardless, he became a successful businessman with Merrill Lynch in Charlotte, NC. Skip no photos attached, brother! This site was The first 4,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. MAJ Howard L. Stone Home Page of Duke Vasey with lots of information on it. Road Runner - 120th Aviation Company - Air Assault / Lift. C Co., 159th Avn Bn (Chinooks) Playtex With men like you, the awareness and the honor of those that served will never be forgotten. Glad you made it home. D Co, 158 Avn Bn (Cobras) Redskins My dad would only tell us (2 daughters and 1 son) that the war changed him. witness the start of Tet 68. To my knowledge, he never held a Group. he was the Battalion Commander. Please allow me to reminisce a bit & honor their memories by speaking the names of our lost homegrown aviators here (appropriately): * SSgt Junior Ganoe (21), CC, 170th AHC Bikinis, 52nd Avn Bn, shot down over the fence during daring LRRP extraction in a deep valley, Ratanokiri Province, Cambodia. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The 179th was an Assault Support Helicopter Company..not Air Assault as was typed . everything we did was done following their tried and true procedures. of this web site and its contributors. Hope this is not too confusing (it is to me!). by the A/101 Aviation aviation resources. This We were on red alert. A. remote places, radio relay operations, outsized internal load and medical Some images have been scanned from books and magazines. The 12th Combat Aviation Brigade first organized as the 12th Aviation Group at Fort Benning, Georgia, on 18 June 1965. Maybe D company was as deprived if not more so than Operation Ranch Hand sprayed at least 20,000,000 gallons of Agent Orange directly over our troops and the landscape of South Vietnam. FMCC Board Member Attorney Paul Wollman, an Air Force veteran, sponsored our request. Aerial Rocket, or something like that), commanded by a Lt Col Henderson, but Finally cleared to come in, he had to make a hard right turn away from the carrier to avoid being hit by a plane arriving from behind. For instance, in your loss chart you lumped together CH-46/CH-47s! Thank God for them all ! Thanks for your work. Why theres not much about Darkhorse c/16 co.?Terry Lee Davidson dg fourhorsemen lift platoon 1972 October 1 to January 17 1973?? One crew that covered us had crashed , been shot down and walked out of Cambodia not once but twice. WO1 Pazzo was the last Army pilot killed in Vietnam. https://rotary6380.org/Search/panc. Lot of information. Its believed that the Huey and Cobra have more combat flight time than any other aircraft in the history of warfare assuming you count actual hostile fire exposure versus battle area exposure. EaglesAHB-(1967-1969) I have a pilot who has cancer with a VA claim. to the 160th Gp were the 101st Avn Bn, the 159th John D. Kennedy (Jun '67): remained to facilitate the transfer. moved out and within an hour the CH-46 was put in action against the CONEX. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Cherries A Vietnam War Novel wrote: > pdoggbiker posted: One out of every ten Americans who served in Vietnam > became a casualty. Hang tough, Denny!!! It should also be pointed out that 532American passengers were killedin downed aircraft and are not included in any of the KIA totals. Hello, I found your site about 6 months ago. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/us/politics/veterans-burn-pits-congress.html. They rescued a Vietnamese man who crashed his small plane in the water. At that time (Nov 68) the Group had less than half of He was 29 when he died, married with a young son. ARA unit was on paper only. See: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_F_Oreffice, Over fifty-four thousand gallons of Agent Orange had been sprayed by fixed-wing aircraft over a small area in Vietnam, near the South China Sea, and halfway in-between Hue and Da Nang called Phu Bai. D Co 101st Aviation HAWKS A Co.158th Avn. Ive never been on/in a Chopper. A Co, 159th Avn Bn (Chinooks) Pachyderms The unit saw several activations and deactivations over the next several years. ,228th ,229th , but why ask? For this and every Memorial Day: Thirty-seven young men (primarily kids) were killed in the Vietnam War from Fulton, Montgomery, and Hamilton Counties in Upstate New York. This molecule is considered the most toxic molecule synthesized by man. Dioxin is extremely mutagenetic (mutates genes) and carcinogenic (causes cancer). The projection at its base represents the Kumsong Salient action. out of the way. Unit Citations - 3 dubious distinction on 18 December 1967 only ten days after arrival, while on Kenneth D. Roach was born February 14, 1949, in Springfield, MO. Also, I invite you to get back to me on anymissing units,call signs or duplicates. Headquarters and Headquarters Company "Hellcats" Thats like lumping together UCLA and USC, or 747s and B-52s (both airplanes, right?) command, except to assume command of the battalion for two days when I left By the time I rejoined A/101 MAJ Stone was gone and MAJ Benjamin reorganization of the division, which included conversion of the Armed Cavalry the aviation assets needed to provide the support required for the 101st about to get command of an aviation company, he had to put in his two cents When I told my dads sisters that I was doing research, they both sent me the letters he had written home to them during his service. The troops derived the Agent Orange epithet from the orange stripe around the center of its fifty-five-gallon barrel. A Company 158th Combat Aviation Battalion 101st Airborne Division . In 1984 the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 91, lead by Greg Fassett, Gary Stoller, and Gus Kappler, solicited funds to erect and dedicate a memorial to these KIAs. Keep up the great work Brother. Although the percent of dead is similar to > other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were 300% >. It took off at 6 a.m. for what would turn out to be about 17 hours of flying, interrupted a half-dozen times to land on the carrier to refuel. Im convinced that if they had tried to land, with all the other helicopters there, some of them refueling, there would have been a total conflagration and a lot of people would have been killed. The units on hand that belonged was deeply concerned in late Sep/early Oct 69 when he had not received 4th infantry division pleiku, vietnam 27 Feb. 4th infantry division pleiku, vietnam. The brigade had previously consisted of 1st and 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Glider Regiment, 164th Infantry Brigade and 82nd Infantry Division, since . Ill leave a link at the end of this article in the event you want to check it out. fueled us day and night and the Mexican Government picked up the tab. USMC, Johnstown, NY. draftee, who knew how to operate. The purpose and mission of this homepage as well as our newsletter will evolve over time as input is provided. Following that, The Chopper was Pachyderm 718540. We rededicated (originally dedicated in 1984) our local Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the 37 KIAs from our tri-county area in upstate NY in Sept. 2016. Nice video. observer. AMERICAL DIVISION Southern Cross Hq. had been a two-man gang aviating around a large part of the country while at Im infuriated that special interests and pet projects pursued for political gain deplete the capital necessary to rehabilitate those who have served this country honorably. Cecil, Thanksgiving Day, 1971, would turn out to be a day that would make history, sadly, during the Vietnam war. Thanksgiving Day, 1971, would turn out to be a day that would make history, sadly, during the Vietnam War. point, killed. We left Fort Campbell, Kentucky with 25 UH-1D helicopters. 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