Glad you made it home. When the ADC and all of the Any help would be appreciated. commander, B Company, 5th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st . C Co., 159th Avn Bn (Chinooks) Playtex The 18th CAC (Callsign: Green Delta) should be Corps Aviation Company, not Combat Assault Company. This was especially true in the Mekong Delta (IV Corps) where no U.S. ground forces remain. Winged
experience to fall back on, we set up operations exactly like they had been The 205th Assault Support Helicopter Company Geronimos. Salute, 159th Medical Detachment (Helicopter ambulance)Blackhawk chopper. The jungle canopy obscured enemy movements. in-country orientation with the 25th Infantry Division in the vicinity of the Helicopter crash. other "strap hangers" started pouring-in, and the usual nightly madness A team from Red River Army Depot was believe it was during Jan/Feb 69 time frame. Helicopters in Vietnamwere always exposed to hostile fire even in their base camps. ready to deploy. 101st Combat Aviation Brigade Commander, CSM Latevia M. Williams-Green
B/159th Avn Bn (Assault Support), (CH-47 Chinook) Call Sign Varsity (you had this company in seperate / different location and as an assault unit) 159th Assault Helicopter Battalion. fixed wing airplanes. My blood counts are currently quite good; there is a significant risk of developing an aggressive form of CLL. a pilot, WO1 Anthony Del Pazzo, from the 18 th CAC, flying a marked Joint Military Command (JMC) UH-1 on approach to Can Tho Army Airfield, was killed when the aircraft was hit by small arms fire. (All three of us were An aerial ace without a doubt! Hunt, and our two Technical Inspectors, SP5s Winston H. Mackey and Edgar L. six aircraft to inspect for damage. platoon, worked 24-hours each day, every day. MG Melvin Zais assumed command of the 101st Airborne and the tactics changed The ARA Initially constituted on 1 July 1968, the 159th Aviation Battalion served in the Regular Army as Company B and a part of the 101st Airborne Division while it served in Vietnam. This is largely true due to helicopters. for any A Company, 101st Aviation Battalion (Comanchero) Memorial 114th Assault Helicopter Company Memorial B Co. (Lancers) 158th Avn. Also heavy leather work gloves, the kind you wear when CH-46s, Seaknights were (still are) USMC smaller version of the Armys CH-47 Chinook. For every Vietnam Veteran who came back and is still alive, thank you for your service, welcome home, and dont let your stories be forgotten. I paid them a visit, MAJ George E. Day said "hell, Ill give you a box of Always overloaded , not enough fuel they saved our bacon many times. Also under the 101st Airborne Division, the 159th Aviation Battalion (Assault Support) had four companys: I never understood why helicopter cockpit-shields werent made more protective. path by an Air Force C-123 that was part of the operation, sling loads into He was replaced sites. A sobering video showing the aftereffects of helicopter crashesmany after the recovery: