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Record 127 Name: Jack & Holly Berry Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Athens, AL Time: 2000-04-12 02:20:56 Comments: We understand the last Go-Go is going to be put on a "stick" at Redstone Arsenal. We'll send pictures as it progresses. |
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Record 126 Name: Hugh Chapman Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Wiesbaden, Germany Time: 2000-04-12 00:02:54 Comments: Great site, I enjoyed learning more chinook history. I never knew that they actually tested an attack verson. I wish I could make this historic event but I will miss it by a couple of months. I'll be sure to drop by in the future though when I return to Mother Rucker! Geronimo 85-91, Chappy |
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Record 125 Name: Greg Whitehead Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: currently Ft. Campbell, Ky Time: 2000-04-09 02:22:07 Comments: Outstanding site been 47's for 18yrs. Learned alot about the guns a go go here. Keep up the good work |
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Record 124 Name: andy gerrier Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: livermore falls me. Time: 2000-04-03 01:19:23 Comments: served with the cav 66&67 co.a 2nd of the 8th.had the pleasure of seeing guns-a-go-go in action.i believe they were at lz pat with us.took 33 years to see a picture of the ship,thanks andy |
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Record 123 Name: Hank Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 2000-04-01 07:37:28 Comments: Frank- This URL needs posting here. http://www.snowhill.com/~ketchamj/a228_3.htm Many related tales are out there and need tellings invited! Thank God for "glorified beer can construction", or did the commonly used 0.05 sec delay fuse detontate the round way out past the bird? Grinning thru a frown, Hank |
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Record 122 Name: George Williams Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: St.Louis Time: 2000-03-24 15:23:37 Comments: I was a project engineer in the CH-47 Project Managers Office and worked for Col. Gearry on this project |
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Record 121 Name: JIM LILLESTON Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: OVERLAND PARK KANSAS Time: 2000-03-24 15:08:26 Comments: GREAT WEBSITE AND PHOTOS |
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Record 120 Name: lynne Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 2000-03-22 19:59:01 Comments: The site is looking better and better all the time! Keep up the good work. |
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Record 119 Name: Johnny Moreno Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Time: 2000-03-14 23:37:14 Comments: I've been a hooker for 21 yrs and I learned more about its history in one hour than the whole time I have been enlisted. Hookers are proud people. This is a great web site. I am glad to have been informed by friends. Thank You, Johnny |
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Record 118 Name: H W Calonkey Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Time: 2000-03-14 06:50:06 Comments: Frank- Comment/question here is about the CH-47 bird becoming the Army version of the USAF B-52-- Something that gits the job done, but many hate because it is "old fashioned"? Where I'm coming from here is that the CH-47 has served a long list of tasks, in different configurations over many years. I'm hearing tales about model suffexes that make me take my socks off counting them! As a former grunt, with but only one very brief "close encounter of the Go-Go Kind", I keep seeing that the close ground support Go-Go methodology was "the ultimate". No way can it git better than that! The 40 MM chin "chunker" and the 2.75FF rockets now, many years later, come off as "firecrackers", just psy-ops stuff. The "thing-a-ma-bob" that did the job was the 20 MM vulcan cannons and that huge volume of 50 cal "DM 43", that penetrated way into the ground, and made martyrs out of our opponents. In Nov '67 I experienced and was very impressed with A1 Skyraider close ground support on Hill 724. A month later, near Tam Quan, the Go-Go bird "got it right" and did what all us grunts usually prayed for when the shooting started... A few days later we had our first close support by a UH-1 Cobra. It was new and different, but long on "firecrackers" and short on the heavy duty 20 & 50 "magic numbers" that we needed. So much for the bad old days... Hoping to see 'ya in Hucksville! |
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Record 117 Name: Robert C. Orndorf Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: Newtown Square, PA Time: 2000-03-13 17:48:38 Comments: Flew in these aircraft before they left the Vertol factory. Great collection of memorabilia! |
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Record 116 Name: Daniel A. Pynn Website: Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: Tucson,AZ Time: 2000-03-12 20:42:25 Comments: I'm glad to be friends with all the guns a go-go crews for they gave me supurb coverage while on many a combat assault in the Bong Son Valley during my operations from LZ English during 1967. My call-sign for B 229th Avn BN was "Killer Spade 45". |
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Record 115 Name: SSG Jeff Reed Website: Referred by: Yahoo! From: Ft. Eustis, VA Time: 2000-03-11 18:59:19 Comments: I and SSG Shaikh took our graduating class of 68J's Aircraft Armament/Electronic/Avionics Repairers) over to see "Easy Money" while it was undergoing restoration. Wonderful opportunity to show new soldiers some aircraft armament history. My thanks to Stanley for giving a great (albeit on short notice) briefing to my students! |
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Record 114 Name: Frank White Website: You're on it Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: NC Time: 2000-03-11 06:27:28 Comments: Greetings all. I was notified this evening that while attempting to sign the Guestbook, it asked for personal information. Concerned as I was, I came and made this entry, and I never got any such notification. If anyone encounters this, please e-mail me and let me know, and I will change Guestbook Servers. Thank you for your comments and consideration. Frank |
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Record 113 Name: Jim Caudle (Project Manager Cargo Helicopters) Website: Cargo Helicopters Project Management Office Referred by: Lycos From: Huntsville, AL Time: 2000-03-10 02:31:51 Comments: What a great site! I am proud to be associated with the family of aviators who call themselves Hookers. As we have embarked on the project to restore Easy Money and I have read more and more about the Guns a Go-Go aircraft, crews and support personnel, I now understand why the Chinook community is so revered in the Army for their pride courage, and loyalty. I must admit that I got somewhat emotional when I read your dedications. I am glad that I have the opportunity to play a small insignificant part in your history. I look forward to the dedication of Easy Money and meeting all of you in Huntsville. Respectfully, Jim Caudle (Chinook - Everything Else is Just a Sling Load) |
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Record 112 Name: Alan Lopez Website: n/a Referred by: Net Search From: Panama, Rep. of Panama Time: 2000-03-09 03:26:21 Comments: This page is a very informative documentation to me and all the scale plastic modelers in search for ACH-47 data in my country. Thank you |
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Record 111 Name: W. M. Sullivan Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: currently, Monterey, CA Time: 2000-03-07 20:34:16 Comments: I was on the other end of the scale -- OH-13S and OH-6 Scouts, for the 1stBDE, 1st Cav Div.(AM). (May '68 to May '69). Still, it's nice to see a page on a group I had only heard about. Regards, Gaucho/aka Stingray White 34 |
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Record 110 Name: Frank White Website: You're on it. Referred by: Just Surfed On In From: NC Time: 2000-03-05 16:32:00 Comments: Hi Rick... |
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Record 109 Name: rick simler Website: Referred by: Clicked on a 'Guestbooks by GuestWorld' Button From: albuquerque nm Time: 2000-03-05 13:07:00 Comments: on 5 may 67 i was a crewchief w/c co. 227th ahb, 1st cav, at bong-son, bird uh-1d 68-9875 on a c&c mission and witnessed the tragic accident involving the "cost of living." |
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Record 108 Name: STEVEN P. MITCHELL Website: Referred by: From a Friend From: (Monroe, OR) now Arlington,WA Time: 2000-03-04 10:02:19 Comments: I was with B 228th from 7/67 - 7/69. It sure made my heart jump for joy when I loged on to your site and read that GO GO 9er was state side and being restored the last I heard she was in Vung Tau, this is GOOD NEWS!! I would sure like to hear from any of you guys from B228 of this period I was probably the only 300lb F/E to ever crew a CH47A I could tell some stories about these amazing birds. I remember when 54 went down what a loss we felt the GUNS where looked on with pride by all of us in the 228th. Buzz was transfered to B Co after 54 and I can remember him telling about some of their missions. There are a couple of stories I heard (not from Buzz) allegedly involving the GOGOes and wroung coordinates causing frendly fire on (1)a pacified village and (2) our troops doing a sweep of an other village, the stories I got in both cases the pilots felt something was wrong with the coordinates and called base to confirm and were told the coordinates were right and to continue the missions. In case (2) they were called off but not before 13 troops were kia by freandly fire. Is there any truth to this or is this someones war story fabrication. This is a great site keep up the good work, this can be a good forum for keeping the record straight. I look forward to seeing GOGO 9er again. Thanks, GOD bless, Mitch |