frisco-kid
Tue December 13, 2005 6:34pm
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We stopped at a fishing village at the NW end of the island for some cold drinks at a local cafe. That's Cambodia across the water. Phu Quoc Island is actually closer to Cambodia than to Vietnam. I guess they have fought over it several times over the centuries. As close to Cambodia as it is, Cambodians can't enter the country via Phu Quoc. It's not a port of entry for anyone.
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Poncho1971
Mon April 17, 2006 8:46pm
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me-vest-in_road
Summer '05 ride to Andersonville Ga, National POW Museum
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Poncho1971
Mon April 17, 2006 8:53pm
Rating: 10
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Vietnam Veterans Riding G
Veterans Day 2005 Springfield, Effingham County Georgia. Veterans Park, Veterans Day ceremonies.
Me and my Brothers
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:47pm
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:47pm
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:47pm
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:47pm
Rating: 10
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:47pm
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:48pm
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:48pm
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Digital Beauty
Tue July 21, 2009 6:48pm
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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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momsgr8
Tue December 7, 2010 5:09pm
Rating: 10
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173rd
Michael LeRoy Ellis - my brother
KIA Hill 875
19 Nov 1967
Danang, Vietnam
2nd from rt in beret
looking for anyone who knew him 'in country'
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obbop
Sun June 22, 2014 9:02pm
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Vietnam Evacuation
April, 1975. Form used on Guam to process Vietnam refugees arriving by ship.
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obbop
Sun June 22, 2014 9:07pm
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Vietnam Evacuation paperwork
Used on Guam April 1975 to process incoming Vietnam refugees
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