Author Topic: The buds... (Read 4185 times)

Flyin6 · « **on:** January 29, 2021, 04:22:00 PM »

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #1 on:** January 29, 2021, 10:28:34 PM »

Pretty sweet. Didn’t realize that delta gots saddam

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Flyin6 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2021, 10:46:03 PM »

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on January 29, 2021, 10:28:34 PM

Pretty sweet. Didn’t realize that delta gots saddam

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They didn't
But immediately after capture a 160th helo swooped in with some of the bubbas on board and put the habeas-grabbus on the fool.

oklawall · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2021, 05:05:49 PM »

very cool video

Flyin6 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2021, 06:05:41 PM »

Quote from: oklawall on January 30, 2021, 05:05:49 PM

very cool video

Flyin6 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2021, 10:23:05 AM »

Thought this was cool.

Talk about being old...

I can only point to having seen a small portion of aircraft in these posters while I wore that velcro.

Flyin6 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2021, 10:25:26 AM »

Nice

NSDQ

Flyin6 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2021, 10:27:30 AM »

This one deserves it's own post

Lotza names

God rest their souls

Right outside SOAR regimental headquarters

Flyin6 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2021, 06:52:12 PM »

This is normal folks, not the government trying to take away our freedoms.

First of all, anyone with a hunting rifle could wreck these guys day
Second, no one, on his life, from this unit will ever draw blood on an American or do anything against this nation
Like the Waffen SS was to bad...These guys are to good

Did this in LA, Long beach, CA, I think Detroit, Atlanta, and some other cities. You train to get it right here, then execute the real mission in some major metropolitan area down range.

https://www.facebook.com/edward.kmett/videos/10219277577600050

Flyin6 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2021, 10:59:59 AM »

There's a relationship suggested in that second pic that is real.
And no lesser man will put asunder.
Our government may be led by a stumbling fool who is surrounded by buffoons, transvestites and liars of all sizes. But in some places, men of honor who kneel to a real God, quietly wait

Flyin6 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2021, 11:01:01 AM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2021, 11:32:07 AM »

Wally was one excellent human being. He was one of the very first CW5's ever promoted to that grade in the US Army, and for good reason. He was a strong man of God who chose to join up with a band of brothers that at that time were some of the only military members who were actually engaged in combat operations. Perhaps in the years to come, some of what was going on at that time will see the light of day, perhaps not, but he came to us knowing he would not be part of a unit that prepared for war, but to one which was at war.

I grew to know him well. I admired his steadfastness in his faith. I had no faith at the time, God was something weak men needed to explain away things to me...so funny in retrospect. One time we were actually conducting military operations within the borders of the United States. Yea, I know, pose comitatus and all that, and choose to not believe me, I don't care. On a day off in the middle of this thing, he chose to drive into Las Vegas to find a church to attend. The rest of us hoped to catch a wink, maybe a cold one, or perhaps go to the city of lights and try our luck, but not Wally.
I heard from folks in the 101st, where he was the most senior Chinook pilot in the whole division, that in the weeks and days leading up to the desert war (1st one) he led a bible study group at King Fahad Airport where the 101st was pre-positioned. So I asked him about it. He told me that a couple days before that started he was walking to meet his group, and the holy spirit came to him and told him to pray for our enemies. I didn't know a spirit of God from Casper, but I listened. He said as he began speaking a profound sadness came over him and he was seeing killing on a massive scale. The enemy was going to be delivered into our hands and were going to suffer unimaginably. At that time no one knew the war was about to start. Heck I only learned of it about 24 hours prior, and only because we had pre-H-hour missions to fly to prep the battle-space for what was coming.

Pierre was a once famous superbike/GrandPrix racer. He would have probably ascended to become one of the best in the world had it not been for his love of the military. He once owned "Kerker headers" which was one of the original motorcycle header manufacturers, and he also built satellite titanium frames for NASA. He was a good friend of Eddie Lawson. (Goggle the name if you don't know him.) Yea, that Eddie Lawson...Kawasaki tribute bikes? Same man. Pierre told me once that he and Lawson were chatting after a race one day and Pierre, knowing he was the best in the world commented that he had reached his dream. He was surprised to hear the number Grand Prix racer in the world at the time tell him, he really wanted to be an Army aviator! That so inspired Pierre, that he became one, and just like how he rose up to be great in bike racing, he arrived on our doorsteps one day and said I want to be a Night Stalker. Drove a red F150, small lift, which he was so proud of.

Tracy Tidwell was known to all of us as simply, "Turdwell." He was a wiry reddish-blonde freckled kid from Texas. His loud voice and somewhat, let's say, "Country" ways would cause trouble for us pretty much all the time. The more I chewed his a$$ for things the more he hung around my house, so I just stopped yelling at him, hoping he would leave me alone on weekends. I was an officer and he was a sergeant, but the kid never knew how to call me sir, or salute. Nope it was always, "Hey Big-Don, got the truck stuck down by the lake, can you get a chinook and maybe lift me and my buddies out of there?" Ya, that really happened. Of course I didn't take an Army Chinook to pull his rattle-trap F250 out of the mud, couldn't get the captain to allow it. Well, actually the captain was going to fly with me, but the old man about had a cow when he heard about our plans and darned near fired the both of us!
Tracy was good people. Anyone who drives an F250 with a big block and some gas tank held in by cargo straps and always wore cowboy boots while flying the chinook, well, crewing it in the back, is definitely a one of a kind.

Sgt Beem was a late comer. More formal than the rest of the enlisted pirates who inhabited that unit. He still had a lot of "Regular Army" in him. Addressed me as "Sir," never argued and was just a good kid and soldier. I don't think he came over to my house, but crewing with Tracy, he may have. He didn't need to die that cold night in Kentucky...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 17, 2021, 10:52:04 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 17, 2021, 10:53:47 PM »

Those armament guys...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 17, 2021, 10:55:38 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 16, 2021, 10:51:26 AM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 16, 2021, 10:54:15 AM »

What they don't see:

Flyin6 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 16, 2021, 10:56:02 AM »

And possibly the last thing they see...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 16, 2021, 11:01:44 AM »

Anyone remember this?

Flyin6 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 16, 2021, 11:23:13 AM »

Fast rope training, looks like new 75th Ranger bubbas

https://youtu.be/JWmOyIa4WBw

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #20 on:** May 16, 2021, 12:10:33 PM »

Quote from: Flyin6 on May 16, 2021, 11:23:13 AM

Fast rope training, looks like new 75th Ranger bubbas

https://youtu.be/JWmOyIa4WBw

Pays to have some really nice gloves for sure.

Ya know. Looking at the 3 guys in the little bird, it just hit me how compact that thing is. Engine and gearbox must be extremely compact.

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Flyin6 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 20, 2021, 10:33:14 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 20, 2021, 10:35:50 PM »

I buried Mike near Chicago.

Was really cold that day

I stood at attention with a hellish cold wind blowing.

We only had dress greens (Light jacket) and no coats

We stood until we were numb

I drank that night until I had no memory of that day

Flyin6 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 20, 2021, 10:38:11 PM »

Strength and Honor

Flyin6 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 20, 2021, 10:39:25 PM »

Our wall

Flyin6 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:20:36 PM »

So, although the 160th is a closed mini culture of quiet warriors, we are now widely known of.

And as an American you should thump your chest knowing these folks are out, way out in front taking care of business.

So maybe I'll share some of our culture so that you all know what sort of warriors we have in this great military.

We do the mission, we have never quit, even to the point of death. We have never dishonored our nation, and you dam well ought to know, we scare the living crap out of the people we go after.

Yea, I talk as though I am still one of them, and I am not. But I was and like being a retired Marine, there is no such thing as a Ranger, or Green Beret, or Night Stalker or Seal who doesn't walk that out every single day of his life.

I like how we honor our dead. We weave that into who we are so that even in joy there is 1% looking back and remembering the losses and great men who died.

One of the units sayings is:

"I serve with the memory and pride of those who have gone before me, for they loved to fight, fought to win, and would rather die than quit... Night Stalkers Don't Quit!"

Flyin6 · « **Reply #26 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:24:28 PM »

Carlos was over my place a few days before he died.

His little bird did not pull out of a dive after firing a pair of 2.75" rockets, and they crashed. Carlos survived the crash but burned to death in the post crash fire. He had this super cool little girl. She was tough as nails. Once she jumped from a swing and broke both her legs. She just sat there and did not cry. Seems the Unit Ethos got into her some as well...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #27 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:26:55 PM »

These men died in the Philippines after raiding a communist guerrilla camp where they rescued an American Missionary in the years that "we were not at war."

Flyin6 · « **Reply #28 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:28:41 PM »

The guys who got Noriega.

We all nicknamed the mission "Operation Ghostbuster" and told everyone Elvis was alive and we were on the search for a pink Cadillac that had been spotted in Panama.

Flyin6 · « **Reply #29 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:31:30 PM »

These guys were pushing the limits of technology.

Flying overwater at night, something the Army does not do, and with AN-PVS5 goggles which were about useless, they couldn't even see an island in Lake Michigan in the evening fog/mist and flew right into it. The aircraft exploded and I doubt anyone actually knew they were dying.

Flyin6 · « **Reply #30 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:34:23 PM »

These two knuckleheads were par for the course of the regiment at that time. Gary, (Front seat) owned that jalopy and would fly (This time with Chuck) on weekends over Clarksville. He wore a crape scarf that had to be eight feet long. I'd hear the thing coming, look up and see the scarf streaming and know the skies were safe from attack

Ah, the memories...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #31 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:35:42 PM »

Stuff:

Flyin6 · « **Reply #32 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:39:29 PM »

Couple of tough hombres

Highest enlisted rank, Sergeant Major, Green Beret, SGM Nail

and the highest Officer rank, General, a Seal, Gen, Olson

Take a close look at those faces. You are looking at pure lethality. You are looking down the gun barrel of the baddest stuff the United States of America can send knocking on someone's door

Flyin6 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:41:27 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #34 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:42:07 PM »

We honor the families of our fallen

Flyin6 · « **Reply #35 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:45:30 PM »

We're not all that popular with the Navy who feels they can do the job without the Army. But we appreciate the deck space, and I apologize for sneaking up on you at night and putting Seals all over your "secure" ships...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #36 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:47:31 PM »

I'll let the photo do the talking

Flyin6 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:48:40 PM »

Master Sergeant Gordon, rest easy...

Metal of Honor dedication

Flyin6 · « **Reply #38 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:49:50 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #39 on:** October 21, 2021, 01:57:09 PM »

The "Real" SERE School. Level "C"

Survival, Escape, Resistance, Evasion is something most services have. It would be considered level "A"

Like the Air Forces's school somewhere up where it's cold.

Level "C" is designed for warriors at very high risk of becoming a POW. People like Special operators.

To be in a unit such as the 160th or Special Forces, you must attend and you must pass. If you cannot, then you are welcomed back into the roles of the regular Army. The only people who teach this school are Navy Seals or Army Green Berets.

It is ungodly tough. You may suffer a broken bone. Tough crap, you have to finish. You will lose 20 pounds. Well, just forget about eating and have fun meeting the new you that has to keep going with no nutrition replenishing all the damage your body is taking, it's all part of the game.

It makes you better. It shows you parts of yourself that you'd never learn anywhere else.

It's dangerous, It's challenging. You will get beaten to near the point of unconsciousness, but right there at the edge, you will learn to still play that mind control game.

It's you against them, and you have to win.

Flyin6 · « **Reply #40 on:** November 01, 2021, 09:20:28 PM »

Found some more

Flyin6 · « **Reply #41 on:** November 01, 2021, 09:22:04 PM »

Flying off of that platform thing, I think it is true that at one time, we sank every fast attack boat Iran had!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #42 on:** November 01, 2021, 09:23:48 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #43 on:** November 01, 2021, 09:27:24 PM »

cj7ox · « **Reply #44 on:** November 03, 2021, 02:04:53 PM »

Prop Copter! Love it!!! LOL!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #45 on:** November 04, 2021, 06:20:29 PM »

Some more pics:
Oh, and Foxtrot Juliet Bravo!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #46 on:** November 04, 2021, 06:21:58 PM »

And these:

I kinda agree with those little bird pilots jumping out of their aircraft! I'd be embarrassed to be seen landing that thing too!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #47 on:** November 04, 2021, 06:24:32 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #48 on:** November 04, 2021, 06:26:19 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #49 on:** November 04, 2021, 06:27:16 PM »

...Because keyboard warriors deserve their place in the history books too!