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  1. 12-30-2005, 06:55 AM #1
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    I just watched the story about the DUST OFF Choppers in Viet-Nam on the Military channel ,It got me thinking about mine and the ride up through the jungle on a penetrator and the flight to Bravo 326 Med at Camp Eagle and on to 85th evac in Phu Bai
    to all of the Medics who were on the ground or in the air THANKS

    A special thanks to '' Batman 1 '' who flew for Eagle Dust Off and got me out where ever you may be

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    Ripcord, that's all those MEDIVAC guys ever wanted to hear...A thanks from the guy they got out and got out alive.

    And maybe one day that exact RotorHead and Doc may show up here now that would be cool.........
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    It's scary what you Nam Vets went through, I don't know how you did it.
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    RJ...Most of us were young,dumb, and ignorant to the fact...this shid can kill you.....By the time I figured it out...I was flat on my ass in a hospital in Japan......
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  5. 12-31-2005, 06:03 PM #5
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    LRP and RIPCORD, sounds like we were close. I got lifted out on Aug 8, 70 to Camp Evans aid station and then down to 85th Evac. Spent 2 weeks there and then over to Camp Zama, Japan. Then the big bird brought me back to Womack at Bragg.

    One of the things I remember really well was the chopper ride from Evans to the 85th. They had stripped me at the aid station and the damn chopper was flying with it's doors open. I kept telling the medic I was freezing, but hell it was August in Nam and day temp must have been close to 90...
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    I got air evacuated in Korea in 1951! The "Dust Off," term had not been invented yet.

    Firstly, I was treated at a BN aid station, then put into one of those little pods on the skid of a little Bell helos (MASH style) taken to a MASH. I was then after being stabilized further flown, (The little POD again.) to K-16 (Kimpo AFB) put on a C-54 in a stretcher along with a lot of other folks and flown to an AFB in Southern Japan and into a hospital in the Kyoto area.

    The flight from Korea to Japan was great! The Nurses were VERY good to us! the Bell helo flights were a little scary and cold!


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