May I join you?

[rotorwash]

If you don't mind, I would like to join your distinguished gathering. The name is Rotorwash, I spent nineteen months in the Playground of the Orient as a crewchief on Hueys, the 101 at Phan Thiet in Feb 1967, the Koreans and the 4th ID at Tuy Hoa in Mar 1967, the 1/35th of the 25th ID (later 4th ID) in April and May 1967 at Duc Pho, then some time in the hospital with malaria, then back to Duc Pho until they got tired of me and sent me home in Aug 68. I spent the next six years banging around working on every helicopter the Army had from the OH-6 to the CH-54. Nov 1974 I went to the Special Forces and stayed three years until some stupid parachute landings and a new wife who did no want me jumping anymore allowed me to get out on a medical. Seems that I have chased Frisco all over creation, carried his butt around Duc Pho and then we both lived in Flathead County, Mt.

I must admit I have been lurking on the fringes of this site and have the greatest respect for ya'll. I really enjoyed the stories by James Worth.

Thanks folks.

[Bill Farnie]

Glad to see you finally made it RW. I'm sure you'll like it here and I'm looking forward to reading some of your stories, and all you PF folks, believe me they are good.

[sn-e3]

Welcome aboard rotorwash, If you live in North Carolina you are close to a whole nest of patriotfiles vets Doc Fred lives in Limestone tenn. and Sid And John Live in Atlanta . Paco -tom lives down in South Carolina. after your on here awhile you will get a hankering to meet these cyber friends and by all means do it they are great people welcome on board.

[Jerry D]

Welcome aboard Rotorwash :32:

[catman]

Rotorwash...anybody that took care of Frisco, has a beer or 12 coming from me! Welcome aboard brother, welcome home and thank you for your service!


Trav

[Stick]

rotorwash hmmmm? Got a high school picture on the mantle and back then I had a full head of hair. Got out of HS and ended up two and a half years later over in some far away land getting my hair blown off by those damn hickolopters. Don't have much hair today. Was that you?
Great to have yah here, glad yah joined us. Welcome home

[rotorwash]

Thanks for the welcome, ya'll. Yeh Stick I guess you can blame us for the hair loss, we probably got away with a lot of things we never got caught for.

RW

[DMZ-LT]

Welcome aboard RW. Any friend of Friscos is a friend of mine. Frisco stayed overnight at my house after the last campout............... the dog still won't go in that room !

[Gimpy]

of Frisco and admirer of James is welcome around here with me.

Glad to have you on board Rotorwash!

Where bouts in North Carolina you herald from?

My father, grandfather and many other distant relatives (including a couple of great looking cousin-in-laws :D ) were born and raised in and around the Asheville/ Canton area.

Anyways, welcome aboard and hope to see more of you around here.

[b3196]

RW
Welcome aboard and welcome home....Being close to Georgia, you need to show up in April for our annual church revival seminar located in Ellijay Ga. While you're there you'll experience "how to pray, how to get along with your fellow man, How to play poker and lose, How to eat raw oysters with vietnamese hot sauce at 7 in the morning. How to kill Mustache's Mikes pets and eat it, and most of all, how to cope with a 4 day hang-over.
Bob K

[David]

Welcome to the site rotorwash :)

[Doc.2/47]

Welcome to the site and thank you for your service!

Tom and James are the best. Any friend of theirs(and I like to think that includes me)...needs to be watched. Closely. Luckily we've got Keith to attend to that function.

Drag up a crate and set a spell. Our bunker is your bunker. Maybe John'll pass around some herb an we'll take the notion to tell a tale or three.

[frisco-kid]

glad to see you finally made an appearance over here. Thanks for giving him a warm welcome, guys. Rotor and I have been friends on a Brit military site for almost a year now. After telling stories back and forth, we discovered it was a real possibility that I may have flown in his bird. I definately flew in his AHC's choppers. They were the one's that took us in for most of our CA's in the mountains of Duc Pho from APR67 to until I left in JUN67 while we were part of Task Force Oregon. James [1/327] would have been inserted by them, also. Ron [3rd Bde, 25th ID; later changed to 3rd Bde, 4th ID], you probably got hauled around by these guys, also. Their choppers had the shark's teeth on the nose.

RW, James and I humped some of the same ground around Duc Pho. He got to the 101st [A co, 1/327] in APR67, and was a line doggie with them until he volunteered for LRRPs in OCT67. He has been a personal friend of mine for about 4yrs.. Until recently, he lived just a few miles from me here in the Bay Area, and we hung out frequently. I helped him move into his Country Estate :D in Oregon earlier this summer. He and I, along with our other halves, returned to VN a little over 2yrs. ago. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that we're gonna have to listen to him for awhile when he reads your comment about liking his stories :re: .

Once again, I'm really glad to see you over here. I'm looking forward to enjoying somemore of your great story telling abilities here. I hope you decide to bring your posts from Military Images over here to be preserved, and to be enjoyed and learned from by everyone here.

Welcome, my friend.

[Keith_Hixson]

Glad to have you on board.

Keith

Thanks for taking care of Tom (Frisco) he's a fine gentleman.

[Matzos]

Hi RW good to see you here :)

[exlrrp]

Originally posted by rotorwash
I really enjoyed the stories by James Worth.

Thanks folks.


Well dang RW, someone with your amazingly good sense and highly sophisticated and exquisite tastes is always welcome here, at least by me. I can just tell youre going to be a real asset to this sight and we're going to be good friends. If you havent got enough yet, just slip me the word and I'll make up some more :D :D :D
Like Tom (friscokid) you may have shuffled me around also, was in Duc Pho with the 101 (A co 1st Bn/327--the Abu's) from early May 67 toSep when when we moved up to Chu Lai. I joined the lrrps (E Co/20th Inf) in early Oct, 67 went to Recondo School in Nha trang the spent untill April '68 up along the Cambodian border in II Corps (altho took a few brief forays into other places)
So welcome to the site and I hope you keep coming back.
I'm only about halfway through with my life, and have finally got to the good part, so there'll be a lot more exciting stories to tell as time goes by!!
Stay good
James

PS the picture is me last time I was in Pleiku, 5/03

[BLUEHAWK]

When you can't think what to do, throw a grenade.

[rotorwash]

Thanks, folks for the kind words. We did our best to take care of all you smelly ol' grunts. Lookin' good, James, although Pleiku seems to have changed somewhat.

Better then a half months salary for the elephant bag. I got pretty disgusted and just started hollering, "What'l somebody give me for this?" the response was, "What is that ugly piece of crap?" When I told them, there was a mad rush. Thought about setting up a couple of Mama-sans in business sewing up a bunch, but it just didn't seem right. Must be a man thing.

I live on the southwest side of Raleigh and just outside the barbed wire of Chapel Hill. I teach high school just north of Fort Bragg so I can keep in touch with all the old hands.

Regards,

Rotorwash

[Old Seabee]

RW, welcome aboard. I word of warning. If you go to the Church Meeting, stay away from the brownies, and close to Frisco since he is a known friend. If you see him with a brownie, hide untill morning.

[b3196]

RW
Frisco being the good guy that he is will let you have the brownie when he's done
Bob K

[SuperScout]

A belated welcome home, and welcome to this site. You have been warned, and if you want any really good counseling, avoid all the others' offers, as they'll try to bribe you with liquor, loose wimmen, and........ wait a minute,,,, that's my job! You may want to make a notation on your calendar for next year's cookie bake-off, choir-practice and midget flingin' contest. I plan to be there, creek risin' and all.

[Robert J Ryan]

HI RW spent my time with 4th ID with 1/22Inf Mar 69-Mar 70 glad to see another Ivy Leagure on the forum