National Airborne Day
Welcome paratroopers from far and wide that may have surfed their way over to TAH.
The above photo is your humble blogger circa 1984 or 1985. The most astute among you will be able to identify the unit that I was in at the time based on the photo and time hack.
Whoever is first (not a regular at TAH) I’ll buy a beer. Not that it’s that tough but I like beer and hate drinking alone.
Note how drenched in sweat I am. I forgot how much work went into this whole static line thingy. Fortunately I overcame that and finished my career in a purely HALO mode.
Category: Politics
Can’t guess. The photo is from 25 years after my time, (damned old, ain’t I?).
I surely loved my “Rendevous With Destiny”. Airborne from 9/60 to 4/64, with 2 years each in the 506th Abn Battle Group, and Air Mob co. 101st Aviation Battalion,(Prov); picked up several schools and 41 jumps for my senior wings. Just got home from Week Of the Eagle 2009 at Ft. Campbell, where they ain’t even on jump status anymore. But, all them choppers look cool too.
Happy Birthday, fellow Troopers!
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82nd or 75th
Top B,
surely you can try and be more specific? 😉
I, myself, have no idea but I’ll say 508th PIR.
I stll remember checking out my Dad’s classbook from Ft. Benning from the summer of 1965. Everyone had a terrified look on their face. I thought it was pretty neat but not htat neat. I was 10 going on 11 at the time.
Hand Salute to all who undertake the trade of Airborne!!!!!!!!
Hint. The uniform is the rip-stop OG-107 and the helmet is Kevlar. Oh yeah and though you can’t really see it the watch is a Seiko Sports 200.
75th Ranger Regt then. If you want me to get down to Bn specifics…that might be tough…but 3rd Batt was reactivated in Oct 84, so might be 3rd. 1st and 2nd had been still around since 74.
My guess – 3/75th
It was around that time that you could start buying jungles again at the clothing sales for about twelve bucks a set. Of course the old salts had a set of pickles they liked to wear. 3rd drew kevlars and had them for the flagging ceremony, if I remember corectly.
I’m going to guess he was with Spooky 7, they did the insertions when Spooky 6 was unavailable. The 1-5 that COB is signaling is a sign that each man was to kill 5 Thai/Laotian assassins before succumbing to death. But then they would be resurrected in these sarcophagus thing that Spooky 6 got from a race of people called the Asgard.
TSO,
Boy, go play with your dolls and let the grown-ups talk.
We’ll call you when it’s dinnertime. You nasty leg.
Damn TSO is good.
Actually it was 1st Ranger Bn.
Okay some of you nailed it down to the Ranger Regiment which is correct but the key clue was the Seiko watch. At the time 1st Battalion NCOs and Officers were issued Seiko Sports 200’s. 2nd Battalion was issuing G-Shocks and I don’t think 3rd Batt had graduated from sun dials yet.
Frankly Opinionated I just thought I’d let you know that there are still two airborne companies at Ft. Campbell still. 4/101 Pathfinder Company under 159 Aviation Brigade (which is in Afghanistan) and our sister Pathfinder at 101 Aviation Brigade (I can’t remember which batt they were under). 4/101 PFDR used to be LRSD under 311 MI before they got disbanded and our sister company are the “original,” as the 1st Sergeant there always put it, Pathfinder Co. from WWII.
Dirty Mick,
Back in 90-92 timeframe the Pathfinder Det was under 2/17th CAV (which was kind of strange). But they had teams that would work direct for all of the Inf Bde S3 Air’s. I spent alot of time hanging with the team assigned to 2nd Bde/101st (502nd) during Desert Shield and Storm. Good bunch of guys.
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Anyone know whether Sabre Heliport still exists? It used to be the Fort Campbell home of the 2nd Squadron, 17th Air Cavalry, occupying a fly-infested field with snap-together pads on which the Hueys, Cobras, and Loaches sat. The heliport was on a game reserve of some sort and the bison (yes, bison,) used to wander around the bunkers; mostly they just laid around and stank.
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