shortround

Morning Top,<br>Never got to T-land. Had to spend all our refits in Australia. I did some ops on the little guys, but most of my surface excursions were on the 165 footers with the Coastal Surveillance Group (part of TF 117). We operated mostly out of Cam Rahn. Supported a bunch of the &quot;green hats&quot; at Na Trang. Bunch of ops up north supporting various SpecOps groups.<br>The boats were fast and deadly. Twin GM diesels provided most of the power but when we had to get in a hurry, that 26,500 hp gas turbine (basicly an F-4 Phantom engine) worked real well. We had a 100 round per minute 76 mm cannon up forward, 2-40mm Bofors aft, 4-twin 20mm's, 4-twin .50 cals, and 2-81mm breech load mortars.<br>We stayed real busy during the Easter Offensive of '72. Operated up around Hue and Phu Bai when the NVA started making their push down Hwy 1. Life was real interesting for a while.<br>Left the Brown Water Navy and went back to submarines and finally checked it to them in '78 after 9 1/2 years. Went to work for the Army National Guard as a technician and still in uniform. Still being the old gunner, I'm presently rebuilding the Small Arms Readiness Training Section from its awsome state of disrepair. Don't know if that 0-6 on the hill did me a favor or not but it's working out.<br>Got to run. Being the weekend warrior today and got formation in 30 min. Back later.<br>&quot;Shortround-6 out&quot;

DuaneWKKC

First name, Last initial and where i work.. cant say 'cause someone higher up ( everyone ;D ) might figgure out how much time i'm spendin on here at work.

drafalske

Mine's not too creative, First Inital, last name. Dave Rafalske. Just please don't try to pronounce the last name, people have been butchering it for as long as I can remeber.

chuck3

[quote author=Jack Thorpe link=board=10;threadid=6495;start=45#60942 date=1036239092]<br>Gunfighter 101 Oceana Tower, follow the Tomcat short in the groove, wind zero four zero at one zero runway 5 right cleared to land.<br>[/quote] <br><br><br> I'm bringing her in crippled Jack, just keep that tomcat outa my way.

admin

hehehe.<br><br>I kinda miss that old job. Sometimes very exciting, sometimes very boring, but always good people there. I do miss being in the military, especially when it comes to benefits.

Lary Ellis (Top)

[quote author=shortround link=board=10;threadid=6495;start=60#60949 date=1036242486]<br>Morning Top,<br>Never got to T-land. Had to spend all our refits in Australia. I did some ops on the little guys, but most of my surface excursions were on the 165 footers with the Coastal Surveillance Group (part of TF 117). We operated mostly out of Cam Rahn. Supported a bunch of the &quot;green hats&quot; at Na Trang. Bunch of ops up north supporting various SpecOps groups.<br>The boats were fast and deadly. Twin GM diesels provided most of the power but when we had to get in a hurry, that 26,500 hp gas turbine (basicly an F-4 Phantom engine) worked real well. We had a 100 round per minute 76 mm cannon up forward, 2-40mm Bofors aft, 4-twin 20mm's, 4-twin .50 cals, and 2-81mm breech load mortars.<br>We stayed real busy during the Easter Offensive of '72. Operated up around Hue and Phu Bai when the NVA started making their push down Hwy 1. Life was real interesting for a while.<br>Left the Brown Water Navy and went back to submarines and finally checked it to them in '78 after 9 1/2 years. Went to work for the Army National Guard as a technician and still in uniform. Still being the old gunner, I'm presently rebuilding the Small Arms Readiness Training Section from its awsome state of disrepair. Don't know if that 0-6 on the hill did me a favor or not but it's working out.<br>Got to run. Being the weekend warrior today and got formation in 30 min. Back later.<br>&quot;Shortround-6 out&quot;<br>[/quote] Yep thats what I thought, I was a weapons specialist on a spec op A-Team out of Na Trang at the time. Would not surprise me if you had been on one of those boats that we would chase charlie to so you could open up on them. Did quite a number of those hammer and anvil routines. Back em up to the river and watch you boys crawl into the paddies and smoke em. Always amazed me how you guys could climb back over the levee to the river and reverse the jets to blow out the rice and crud.<br> Quite a platform you had to work with.<br> Voodoo 7 clear

Lil Dog

Boy, alot of military men here.. wow...<br><br>Mine was/is my CB handle.. I had an 89 at the time and my lil ol truck was definitely not the most powerful (at the time ) Also my pop was a salesman for MACK and I sorta liked how tough those old trucks were. Sorta saw that in my 89, not the most beautiful truck but tough as nails. I had the MACK mudflaps on the truck. So after some thought from Lil Dodge came Lil' Dog. Had to have something from MACK in there..LOL...<br><br>J-eh

willyslover

lots of guys thinks its ***** slover lol<br>some that know me think it's cause of my pumped up CJ7 ...<br><br><br>early 60's gas class drag cars are my very favorite cars hence ****** lover as in a 33 ****** or a 41 ******<br><br>

admin

[proud of myself]<br>I am one of the few who knew exactly that your name meant. <br>[/proud of myself]

97CTD

I'll Just leave mine a mystery to all..... ;D

Shovelhead

Named by my ridin' bud after my '76 H-D. (Old Blue)

Smokin J

Smokin Joe comes from one of our pilots at 498th Dust Off in Nam in 70-71. Another CE still calls me &quot;Newbie&quot; 32 years later. Seems like Smokin Joe and Newbie is always taken, so I changed to Smokin J. Welcome home everyone.

RATTLINRAM

Mine's fairly obvious, the wife and my Dad were always makin comments on all that &quot;RATTLIN&quot; coming from under the hood. ;D<br> It sounded good to me,,, <br><br>Great lookin scooter Ed. <br> Mine looks like yours, but it sill wears the original brown factory paint that came on the first year Classic in 77. I still run the fairing and &quot;comfort-flex seat&quot; too. I've got the small tourpack which is in need of some repair after the lid popped off crossing the RR tracks. &gt;

Lary Ellis (Top)

[quote author=Smokin J link=board=10;threadid=6495;start=60#61076 date=1036278824]<br>Smokin Joe comes from one of our pilots at 498th Dust Off in Nam in 70-71. Another CE still calls me &quot;Newbie&quot; 32 years later. Seems like Smokin Joe and Newbie is always taken, so I changed to Smokin J. Welcome home everyone.<br>[/quote]<br>Hot dang troop! we got us a family reunion going on here! thanks for the ride Dust Off! I didn't care to much for those little sudden points of light that would appear in the airframe I prefer to hear the gunfire!

Push Rod

Dang, take a couple days away from DTR, the forums explode...<br><br>[quote author=Jack Thorpe link=board=10;threadid=6495;start=15#60608 date=1036175434]<br>Ok Push Rod, wha'ts your story? Can't wait to hear this one... :P<br>[/quote]<br><br>Awwwwllll right, so theeerrrreeee I was, 10,000 ft up, nothin' between me and Mother Earth but a thin blonde.<br><br>All of a sudden, the plane runs out of gas. She bolts upright, and yells out:<br><br>&quot;Oh no, now you're going to have to push, Rod&quot;<br>