OT: gun it does have guns in it

[txpete]

found these today.once a year we would have to do a refresher/qual with the M-60's.
pete

B trp 7/17 cav.

weapons check.










and to think we got a extra $55.00 a month for this .
pete

[jeepnik]

Pete, the flight pay wasn't for those flights, it was for the other ones. It and "combat" pay have one thing in common. The actual condtions that must be met to receive the pay, aren't worth the pay. But we were young and not so bright back then. We looked at it as free money for beer.

[txpete]

back then 55.00 bought alot of beer
pete

[Hobie]

Oh, yeah!

[jnyork]

IIRC, Phu Cat RVN NCO club, 15 cents per Pabst Blue Ribbon with rust on the top of the can, but cold. 10c at happy hour with free cold cuts and cheese ( we didnt call it cold cuts, but there it is )

[txpete]

nothing better than a old Milwaukee in a steel can.the rust was for flavor.
pete

[2ndovc]

Great photos Pete!!!

Looks like fun.


jb

[jeepnik]

It's all fun until the targets start shooting back.

[AJMD429]

OT question on OT post . . .

What are the little foot-long pointy things on the tail part of the fuselage that stick out at different angles...?

[txpete]

there are for the high freq radio.am upper and lower side ban.
pete

[C. Cash]

Very cool pictures Pete....thanks for sharing them and for your service. Which one are you?

[AJMD429]

there are for the high freq radio.am upper and lower side ban.
pete

Guess then I should have said "What are all those little half-wave-long things, then.... "

[txpete]

there are for the high freq radio.am upper and lower side ban.
pete

Guess then I should have said "What are all those little half-wave-long things, then.... "

at one time this bird was a command aircraft.fwiw the HF radio still had tubes and 500 watt out put.
pete

[txpete]

Very cool pictures Pete....thanks for sharing them and for your service. Which one are you?

c cash there are very few pics of me.I bought a 35mm camera and I took it with me just about everywhere.I just bought a scanner that does slides and neg's.this stuff has been in the attic for years.
pete

here is one from 2nd acr.


you can see the mounts for the mine pods.if the russians ever came through the passes from east germany we could fly in and dump mines and slow them down.
pete

[Modoc ED]

IIRC, Phu Cat RVN NCO club, 15 cents per Pabst Blue Ribbon with rust on the top of the can, but cold. 10c at happy hour with free cold cuts and cheese ( we didnt call it cold cuts, but there it is )

Ahhhhhhhhhh -- HC & Cheese !!!! Nothing like it.

[C. Cash]

Thanks Pete....great pictures. Here is a picture of "the Pig" from the mid-80's at Fort Carson, CO...spent most of my time as a 60 gunner there. A fickle mistress she was.......

[txpete]

a squirt of lsa-T and she would run all day

[C. Cash]

A little bottle of CLP stuck in the helmet band don't hurt either

[C. Cash]

BTT

Sorry to kill your thread Pete! It's what I do......

[popeye44]

Remember the RUSH?

[Travis Morgan]

nothing better than a old Milwaukee in a steel can.the rust was for flavor.
pete

I happen to have some of those steel cans. I found them and some steel Gerber jars under my house.

[sore shoulder]

Thanks Pete....great pictures. Here is a picture of "the Pig" from the mid-80's at Fort Carson, CO...spent most of my time as a 60 gunner there. A fickle mistress she was.......

If you think the 60 was a pig, you should try it's replacement the 240B. I just spent some time last week packing one around the MT mountains with 40lb ruck, body armor, and half the basic load of 1200. It sucks being the big guy sometimes.

[C. Cash]

You have my respect Frank. As I was told as a young private..."This thing will either kill you or make a man out of you". I often carried the Pig, tripod and my own ammo load, along with my Ruck/cold weather gear over those mountains. I will never be in that kind of shape again......

[sore shoulder]

I often carried the Pig, tripod and my own ammo load, along with my Ruck/cold weather gear over those mountains.

Ouch, thats a load. Your making the pain from last week come back. Time to go take some Ibuprofen.

[C. Cash]

I often carried the Pig, tripod and my own ammo load, along with my Ruck/cold weather gear over those mountains.

Ouch, thats a load. Your making the pain from last week come back. Time to go take some Ibuprofen.

Pete you have inspired me to scan in my Dad's Vietnam photo's of B-52's, F-4's, Hueys, Skyraiders, F-105's and the like...... thanks again for sharing these and too all you fellas for your service.

[timkelley]

PBR in a steel can, what a memory. At least it kept better in a conex in the ChuLai sun than Bud or Miller.

[Travis Morgan]

What happened to the Bud and Miller cans? Did they cook off? If they did, that would be the world's most disgusting conex.