Full Description
During Vietnam, the basic role of the USMC gunship squadrons was to protect the transport helicopters during medevac missions, troop insertions and extractions, resupply missions, and supporting the Marines on the ground during operations and patrols. Basically, whenever the Marines or South Vietnam friendlies got in trouble the gunships were dispatched to assist them.
As a gunner, and later crew chief, Pete Greene flew hundreds of missions on Huey gunships - flying practically every day with different pilots and gunners. In this vivid memoir he recalls many of those missions, including providing gunship support for MACV-SOG in and around I Corps area, working with Marine Recon, and undertaking frequent, perilous resupply and medevac and medevac support missions.
Contents
Enlistment USMC and Memphis Naval Air Station
Culture Shock-January 67
Giant Spider and Beetles
Time to Start Flying
VMO-6
Mighty Mouse & Here I am
March 67 and SOG
April and CH-46 downed, Summer 67
Early Summer '67
Couldn't find the bullet hole:
Night Standby
Recon Team south of Chu Lai
SOG Major
The move to Phu Bai
Quang Tri Air Base
Young Vietnamese Girl
Marine Recon is trouble and rocket
The Sniffer and Flood Light
The Mortar Attack, December "67
Con Thien being overrun
Gooks in the Open
Bullet in the blade
Looking for US ARMY chopper and NVA on Dozer
SOG Team in trouble
Back in the World
Epilogue
