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This section of the site will be one of the largest when it is completed.  There are a lot of incredible Air Cav and Vietnam sites out there right now, and I am in the process of collecting a comprehensive link list. Please let me know if you'd like to add a link! info@cavhooah.com

ZIPPO! - From A Troop 1-4 Cav, Vietnam

Chinese Bandits Recon LRRP Team 1st Bn (ABN) 8th Cav 1965-66 http://www.geocities.com/d6566mustangs

1965-66 was awarded two Presidential Unit Citations for extraordinary heroism for their participation in the Battles of the Ia Drang (November 1965) and Nathan Hale (June 1966); conducted the historic FIRST night combat rappel; and DOD/MACV directed long range reconnaissance (LRRP) operations along the northern Cambodia and Southern Laos borders in the spring of 1966..."Laying Down FIRST Tracks in the Central Highlands".

TOTAL COUNT OF TANKERS KILLED IN ACTION DURING THE VIETNAM WAR

This was sent in by Tom Criser, who served with 1/9 Cav in Vietnam:

A Cavalier’s Last Charge

A Cavalry Soldier passed on

 the Stetson and Sword today.

Boots at rest...taps echoed once again.

Flagpoles stand at half;

the banner flies stoutly with the wind.

A Cavalry Soldier stepped off

 a “Winged Horse” today.

Troopers stand with heels pressed taut...

adorned with glazed eyes.

Flattened hands pushed temple tight,

for one’s last combat flight.

A Cavalry Soldier died today,

with honor forged on infinity’s wall.

Long vanished Cavaliers

 proudly join the final charge,

So Remembrance could speak the name...

for eternity’s present roll-call.

1/9 Cav 1969 “Cavalier Blue India” Tom Criser - Corpus Christi, TX Copyright 2003

                                                             -Thanks, Tom!

http://edlempsvietnampicturepages1965-1966.com/- Ed Lemp's 1st Air Cav Vietnam Picture Pages 1965 - 1966 - "The First Shift"

Rescue at LZ Albany

• A Troop 1-4 Cav, Vietnam - OVER 200 PAGES OF IMAGES!

1-5 Cavalry Vietnam Email list Database

1st of the 9th Air Cavalry in Vietnam

SITREP - The 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the Australian Army in Vietnam

The Vietnam Helicopter War - Lots of great links to other units!

2-17 Cav - Banshees in Vietnam

3-17 Cav - B Trp. Some of the BEST Vietnam photos I've seen online!

11th Armored Cavalry's Veterans of Vietnam & Cambodia

G Troop, 11th ACR - Vietnam Photos

http://members.tripod.com/JohnGriffith/AirCav.html - Griff's Air Cav Site

Great Vietnam era Flight School photos!

Vietnam War Battle of Binh An - (Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association)

Darkhorse in Vietnam

The Role of Air Power in Vietnam

VIETNAM STUDIES AIRMOBILITY 1961-1971

 The Virtual Wall

Sons and Daughters in Touch 

The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall Page

Please help support the Wall on the Web, visit their guest book for sure, not all of America has forgotten, as you will see.  Searching for a lost friend, go there, find them and honor them with your words.  The site is sponsored by 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. "Manchus"

From the Other Side (Turn your sound on) - This is an outstanding story!

http://www.1stcavmedic.com/

Paul Grandy - B Company 1/8th Cav

Gordon Swenson - D Company 1/8th Cav

B Troop, 1st Squadron 9th Cav

Silver Wings of the Cav

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ARVN --- Army of the Republic of Viet Nam. Some units were pretty damned good and I'm proud to have worked with them. Many were pretty damned bad. See "ARVN herding" with Loaches.

Bear Cat --- An Army installation a little north of Saigon.
(If you can't find Saigon on your map, look for Ho Chi Minh City, then you need to work on your world history and then you can thank the Lyndon Johnson and Dicky Nixon administrations for the name change. If you don't know who they were... then to hell with you and get off my web site!)

Crispy Critters ---  VC & NVA after Willie Pete or Napalm strike

Company --- Approximately 200 troops

Cavalry Troop --- About the size of a Company

Di Di Mau --- Pronounced Dee Dee Mau or just "Dee Dee", --- Leave Quickly

DooDah --- We got into trouble for saying "Rat Fuck" on the radio during Sit Reps in 1970. Pat Will, Crusader 34, inadvertently coined this unique phrase that means "Rat Fuck" (see Rat Fuck)

FNG --- What we all were at one time, Fuckin New Guys

Giant Rat Fuck --- A really big RF

Goat Screw --- Not as big as an RF

Heavy Hog --- A Huey "C" or Charlie Model gunshot with a huge, rectangular, box shaped rocket pod mounted on each side. I believe the HOGs carried 76 each of the 2.75 inch Folding Fin Aerial Rockets. FFAR. I'm sure one of my Bros. will correct me if that number is wrong.

KBA --- Killed by airstrike. What we did to them.

KHA --- Killed By Hostile Action. What they did to us.

KIA --- Killed in action. What we did to each other.

LOACH --- Light Observation Helicopter, LOH, Hughes OH6A. Some will claim the OH-58A Bell Jet Ranger was a Loach. We beg to differ. Read that identifier as "OH-5.8"--- Not quite a 6!!

OH-6A Loach        OH-58A JetRanger

LZ --- Landing zone for helicopters. Sometimes marked by a smoldering smoke grenade. Sometimes marked by a smoldering Loach.

M-60 --- Machine Gun. 7.62 caliber fired 700 shots per minute. Primary door gunner weapon on Charlie Model Gun ships where the guns were suspended on Bungee cords. Used on special mounts on slicks and was the primary weapon of our Aero Scout Ships.

"NGUY HEIM" --- Vietnamese for "Extreme Danger". A good place to get yourself killed!

NVA --- The bad guys from North Viet Nam. We killed lots of those dudes. They killed a few of us. They paid big time in Spades for each of our KIAs.

PLATOON --- Approximately 40 troops

RAT FUCK --- A very intense aerial vs ground combat engagement involving many helicopters, many ground troops and maybe a few bad guys.

Reconnaissance By Fire --- the use of fire arms and explosive ordnance to locate enemy positions or try to get them to shoot at us thereby revealing their positions.

REMF --- Rear Echelon Mother Fucker. To a combat vet there is nothing worse on our side than a REMF.
It's probably most of those lying sacks of shit that are now getting compensation for PTSD because Chuck blew up his friggin desk and his brand new, just arrived from Hong Kong, Stereo during TET 1968. Enough RANT. I'll go to the Light Horse Bunker now. (If you're interested, search PTSD on the internet.)

RTO ---Radio-telephone operator. Not as easy as the name sounds! Lots of dead RTO in America's cemeteries.

SITREP -- Situation Report

SLICK --- Troop carrying helicopter, most Hueys as you know them, were SLICKS after mid 1969.
Some Scouts used to claim they'd, "Rather suck dick than fly a slick". Some of them did though. Fly Slicks that is :-) Slicks was scary stuff... Guys with big hairy balls and didn't know it or boast about it flew slicks.
My roomy got me, a scout pilot, to go fly with him on his slick on a troop insertion mission. Scared the crap out of me. I kept wishing I was back in my OH6, "Pig Pen".

Squad --- approximately 11 troops. About how many Americans you could get on a SLICK. Now ARVNs were a different story, you could get 2 squads of those little suckers aboard a slick.

"Tu Dai" ---Signs warning to "Keep Out" of the area. Chuck would put these signs up to let the local gentry know the area was booby trapped. They might as well just thrown out a "welcome mat" for the Scouts.

VC ---Viet Cong, also known as: Victor Charlie, Charlie, Chuck, Charles and lot of other more derogatory names but generally, he was a respected enemy. Sure, some of them were really pretty stupid but I'm sure they have a few documented cases of them encountering more than just a couple of "not too sharp Imperialist soldiers" too.

VR --- Visual reconnaissance conducted to find the enemy

WIA --- Wounded in action

WP --- Or Willie Pete. White Phosphorus Grenades dropped by the Scouts. With about a 10 meter burst radius it made Chuck go "apeshit" when he got some white hot Willie Pete on him.

Much Larger Vietnam Veteran Glossary

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  2-1 Cav in Vietnam

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Vietnam Cav Humor

A Huey Cobra practicing autorotations during a military night training exercise had a problem and landed on the tail rotor, separating the tailboom.

Fortunately, it wound up on its skids, sliding down the runway doing 360s in a brilliant shower of sparks. As the Cobra passed the tower, the following exchange was overheard:

Tower: "Sir, do you need any assistance?"

Cobra: "I don't know, tower. We ain't done crashin' yet!"

Veterans can obtain information regarding a VA Loan including how to get a VA Refinance.