Charles Lee's 159th Recollections
Part 1 159th Aviation Battalion History "Press On"
Part 2a 293d Aviation Company; Commo and Motor Pool; Waiting on Aircraft and Transitions; Learning to Fly the Chinook; Ft Sill and Lawton, Oklahoma; Supply and Tools; Drawing Equipment; Tools, gold and silver welding rods; Visits to cities; AF tugs stolen
Part 2b Trip to Ft Rucker and lights at 10,000; Commo supply / O Club Eagle; FTX; Flight to Calif / 37 Flt Violations; Vacation before Viet Nam Cruise / back by 28th of DEC
Part 3 RVN arrival and other units on the Airfield; Promotions; Dozer and Seabees building quarters; Unpacking the Motor Pool; Old timers, training us new guys
Part 4 Duties in Country; Building Operations Bunker; Emergency Resupply; Combat Assaults; VanOpstal hurt in old bunker; Initial duties; Firing Platform; Putting in fire bases on mountains
Part 5 Loads / Takeoff; Aircraft Missions; Normal resupply; Types of missions flown;
Part 6 Sam Kaiser - PSP; Out house off the firebase; Ammo; Jeeps - ice - beer/conex showers; Bands - USO shows; Beep-Beep sounds for radar; Crash burn on a firebase; Bus run and overloaded take off
Part 7 MSG Libish; S-2 perimeter; Building the officer's club; Flight Surgeon; Tricks on other member of the staff; Pay change - midnight - 3am.; GI Fraggings
Part 8 Chinook dropping a load; Moving Firebase from Ashau - Acting LNO; LOH Pilot/IP
Part 9 Enemy Supplies captured; Philippines; Volley ball games - 1/LT-Commo Officer; Visiting Brother In Law; S-1 getting circumcised before coming home; Monsoons; Turning in the LOHs; Replacement/bronze ware; Christmas day - going home/Bob Hope