frisco-kid
Tue December 20, 2005 10:50pm
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101_0124
"You buy sandwich, lady?"
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frisco-kid
Tue December 20, 2005 11:06pm
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101_0115
A river tour boat had been arranged to carry just us and our guide from Saigon. A young lady named Tinh was our local guide. The girl in the back with the baby is the wife of the boat owner-driver. This was all set up for us from Saigon.
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 12:26am
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The highlight of the trip for me was going to be going to the Mekong Delta. I had never been south of Saigon before. A lot of The Delta is criss crossed with rivers, canals, and channels. It looked as flat as a pool table, with thick vegetation right down to the waters edge. Gimpy, Brice, you boys that fought down this way sure earned your combat pay.
From Saigon, we were headed for Cantho, passing through Mytho and Vinh Long. Takes a kick-ass paratrooper to vacation in The Mekong  .
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 12:59am
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100_0042_2
Saigon is a beautiful city with wide, tree lined boulevards, high rise buildings, and lots of parks. A surprisingly clean city. A lot different from when I saw it in Fall '66. Then it was choked with refugees from the countryside fleeing the war; many of them living on the streets. The city had all of the sanitation problems, begging, hustling, crime, disease, and despare that comes with over-crowding in a city in a war zone. It was great to see it in peace time. I could understand how it was once called "The Paris of the Orient."
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 10:38pm
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100_0026_2
I can't imagine the time involved in this.
After leaving the monastary we return to the hotel, get our luggage, and return to the airport. We do a 5hr. flight to Saigon, getting in at 11:00PM.
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 11:02pm
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100_0010
After lunch at the hotel [on the airline], we booked a short tour from the hotel. The first place they took us was to the local fish market. This was the first fish we saw. Okay,....it's not real .
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 11:14pm
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100_0005_2
Ran into these young Korean sailors who Kath talked into posing for her.
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Keith_Hixson
Tue September 12, 2006 5:08pm
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St. Helens Steaming
If you look close you can see Saint Helens steaming.
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tdeane
Fri December 29, 2006 7:18am
Rating: 10
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And, another from the roo
Taken after ATFP drill was finished. Stephens said, "one more for the wife and kids."
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Tab
Sun March 18, 2007 5:39am
Rating: 6
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HMS Harland
The last picture of the ship before it blew up and sank in Oran Harbour
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82Rigger
Thu September 4, 2008 6:08pm
Rating: 10
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Returned from Curahee
L to R: Frisco, Dan, Packo, James after we returned from Toccoa/Currahee. If you saw Band of Brothers, you'll recognize the shirts.
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David
Sun November 2, 2008 8:09am
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SA_Sturm_Maikowsky_singt
German WW2 Music
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Richard Hambley
Wed November 12, 2008 5:42pm
Rating: 10
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SRAP PLATOON "Holloway's Raiders"
Sergeant Holloway (seated on sandbags with soft drink in hand) with his SRAP Platoon at Camp Radcliffe, An Khe 1968 faces painted up preparing for another mission to Indian Territory. (Rick Hambley photo)
Front Row L-R: Ted Clarke, Gene Dodd, Jack Noble, Jon Jolle. Standing L-R: Ben Moreno, Edward Kalima, Flip Bellinato, Reb Williams, Jon Smerdon, SGT Holloway (seated on sandbags) Olsen, Doc
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David
Mon February 9, 2009 12:04pm
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Salvage Queen
Salvage Queen
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David
Wed October 28, 2009 9:16am
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Wild Weasel
Wild Weasel is a nickname for an aircraft of the United States Air Force specially equipped with radar seeking missiles used to remove radars and SAM installations of enemy air defence systems. The techniques used with Wild Weasels in the Vietnam and the Yom Kippur War were later integrated into the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) a plan used by US air forces to establish immediate air control, prior to possible full scale conflict. Initially known by the operational code "IRON HAND" when first authorized on August 12, 1965, the term "Wild Weasel" derives from Project Wild Weasel, the USAF development program for a dedicated SAM-detection and suppression aircraft. Originally named "Project Ferret", denoting a predatory animal that goes into its prey's den to kill it (hence: "to ferret out"), the name was changed to differentiate it from the code-name "Ferret" that had been used during World War II for radar counter-measures bombers.
In brief, the task of a Wild Weasel aircraft is to bait enemy anti-aircraft defenses into targeting it with their radars, whereupon the radar waves are traced back to their source so that the Weasel or its teammates can precisely target it for destruction. A simple analogy is playing the game of "flashlight tag" in the dark; a flashlight is usually the only reliable means of identifying someone in order to "tag" (destroy) them, but the light immediately renders the bearer able to be identified and attacked as well. The result is a hectic game of cat-and-mouse in which the radar "flashlights" are rapidly cycled on and off in an attempt to identify and kill the target before the target is able to home in on the emitted radar "light" and destroy the site.
The technique (or a specific part) was also called an 'Iron Hand' mission, though technically the Iron Hand part refers only to a suppression attack that paves the way for the main strike.
The unofficial motto of the Wild Weasel crews is YGBSM: "You Gotta Be Shittin' Me". This appears prominently on the logo patch of some squadrons. As the story goes, this was the response of Jack Donovan, a former B-52 EWO (Electronic Warfare Officer):
This was the natural response of an educated man, a veteran EWO on B-52s and the like, upon learning that he was to fly back seat to a self-absorbed fighter pilot while acting as flypaper for enemy SAMs.
The "WW" tailcode of the 35th Fighter Wing derives from its Wild Weasel heritage.
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