frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 10:55pm
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100_0012
Dried fish. Most asian market places are alive with activity and color.
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b3196
Wed May 17, 2006 2:27pm
Rating: 6
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Sids wife, Laurie
Sid Your bro Ray ripped the camera out of my hands and made Laurie stand by the damages oon her car while he took the pic. For those of you that dont know what happened. Sid had the trailer parked in the wrong spot and Laurie tapped with her car
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Keith_Hixson
Tue September 12, 2006 1:34pm
Rating: 10
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Just Starting
Keith with pack
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Keith_Hixson
Tue September 12, 2006 9:27pm
Rating: 10
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Keith Hixson on Top
Me on top with Mt Rainier in the background.
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Keith_Hixson
Thu December 7, 2006 1:02pm
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Our Rental Car
Bob K. would be thrilled with this rental car.
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Keith_Hixson
Thu December 7, 2006 1:15pm
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Hansen's Disease
Isolated Leper Colony. A small volcano created this peninsula. Kalaupaa a place for those with Hansen's disease.
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Richard Hambley
Fri July 25, 2008 9:27pm
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LZ ACTION HWY 19
Richard (Rick) Hambley (Forward Observer) with destroyed duster outside LZ Action just East of Mang Yang Pass 1968
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Richard Hambley
Fri July 25, 2008 9:33pm
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SRAP Platoon at LZ Schuel
Far Left Center Row: Rick Hambley (wearing tiger fatigues with ammo bandolier across chest) with SRAP Platoon at LZ Schueller along QL 19 between AnKhe and Mang Yang Pass 1968.
Rear Row L-R:Glen Nicholls, James Streeter, Ted Clarke, Center Row L-R: Rick Hambley (F.O.), Pollit, Daniel Rayburn, Olsen, Owens. Front Row L-R: Mike Griffin, Donald Harrington, Bill -Mud- McCarthy
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Richard Hambley
Fri July 25, 2008 9:57pm
Rating: 10
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MIKE FORCE RECON
SGT. Rick Hambley with Boo and Hit (his two favorite Montagnard scouts) on Mike Force Recon west of Pleiku near Cambodian border 1968 with one of the first new PRC 77's to be used in country. Other radio to left is PRC 25.
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Richard Hambley
Mon July 28, 2008 5:26pm
Rating: 10
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MANG YANG PASS
Rick Hambley (Tiger Fatigues) with 173rd Airborne guys and destroyed Duster at entrance to Mang Yang Pass along Highway 19. 1968
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Richard Hambley
Wed November 12, 2008 5:42pm
Rating: 10
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SRAP PLATOON at Camp Radcliffe, An Khe 1968
Rick Hambley (.38 pistol under left arm) with SRAP Platoon at Camp Radcliffe, An Khe 1968 preparing to leave on night ambush patrol.
Pictured L-R: Reb Williams, Gene Dodd, Terry Gouge, Rick Hambley (F.O.), Olsen, James Streeter, Ventura Rodriquez, Brian Greenlee, Ted Clark
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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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Richard Hambley
Fri February 27, 2009 4:30pm
Rating: 10
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An Khe Camp Radcliffe 1968 SRAP PLATOON
Rick Hambley (Forward Observer) painted up. Ready to sneak outside perimeter on night time ambush patrol with the SRAP platoon.
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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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Richard Hambley
Sun April 17, 2011 5:42pm
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Water Hole Number 3
Had these old chits from Special Forces club in with my VN photo album. Can't believe they weren't spent on booze!
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