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these various poems of Christmas

LarryRB

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and other writings I get to see 99% of them a week or days before posting here. The only reason is the chopper net that I am on, is significantly much larger, than forums-forums.. Here is something I posted again, to that chopper net, that I wrote in 97.. Has nothing to do wtih holidays or the season... I use to write a lot of stories such as the one posted here. Gave it up in 2000...




"Something a Pilot Could Never See."


I came home from swimming. I stand neck deep, jog two thousand steps, then do 44 laps of a 50 ft pool. Today it is cloudy and spotted rain. I can't continue staining the house, so, I came in here, put a Neil Diamond CD in the disc drive. I love to hear Holly Holy. Every time I hear this song it brings me back to the hundreds of string extractions that we performed, almost every single day. The one thing doing string extractions that a pilot/AC could never see, but, was the sole property of a crew chief and door gunner was the indigenous Jari or Rhade tribesman, who, even while shot and firing back as we pulled them from a hover hole, always, ALWAYS, would look up and give us that eight year old smile. For they knew, they were going to be saved medically, and live another day or they were going to their ancient tribal burial grounds. Either way, they won their part of the deal. There is no pilot of a Huey nor the Pink Panther escort who flew along side of us, the ARVN " Sandie's" who usually were on station, the Fox 4's, be them AF or occasional Marine/Navy who were on station, or the obvious boss of the whole operation, that of the Covey... None of them under our circumstances had the means or way to see what we could see in the back. We were required by SOP, to look out at least every few minutes and I don't mean every five either.. That smile of a grown man that looked no older than an eight year old boy.. Each and every one of those indigenous smiles are permanently etched in my brain. They only come to
life when I listen to the song Holly Holy.
Larry Burbridge
 

Doc

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:thumb: Keep em coming LB ....that is if you don't mind sharing them. I doubt many on here (if any) already saw them on your biker net.
 

bczoom

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Doc said:
I doubt many on here (if any) already saw them on your biker net.
I don't believe Larry meant biker when he referenced choppers. It's helicopters.
 

Doc

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bczoom said:
I don't believe Larry meant biker when he referenced choppers. It's helicopters.

:pat: Yeah, I'm sure your right BC. OPPS! :hide:
 

LarryRB

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Doc said:
:thumb: Keep em coming LB ....that is if you don't mind sharing them. I doubt many on here (if any) already saw them on your biker net.

not into two wheeled bikes.. Choppers, as in helicopter.. And there are no known members of that net here other than me.. Between the group of VHFCN/VHPA/AVNnet/VHCMA/Helivets there are over 26,000, with one third or so on the net each day///
 

Doc

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Hey Larry,
How about getting some of them to join over here? We can even add a chopper forum (the kind you like) if that would help. :D
 

bczoom

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LarryRB said:
And there are no known members of that net here other than me.
What do y'all chat about over there? What's the criteria for joining?

I spent about 3 of my 4 years in the USMC working on UH-1's and AH-1's. Some of the AH-1's were from your era.
 

LarryRB

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12 months minimum, or more, Vietnam flight status only, verified, and depending on the situation, verification of flight hours. On one section of the net, they allow hanger rats, engine, upper and lower pylon, ATC, radio, flight medics and some others to join. I believe they too, are VN in country to join. I will ask though.,. What are your years and MOS?
 

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I'm a bit too late... Early 80's.

MOS was 6324 (comm/nav systems tech) but anything that had a wire, I worked on it.

For a long time, I was the person responsible for all the TSEC/KY-28's and KIT-1A's (all the encryption stuff). Kind of funny since I was a NCO but the Full-Bird Colonel gave me his rank/privledges when it came to that stuff. I could tell (tactfully, of course) any Officer how to handle anything related to the equipment and codes (since if I f'ed-up, the Colonel goes to Leavenworth as well). I also worked on the jammers on the EA-6B's.

Anyway, back to Christmas poems. I did really enjoy your first one but outside of the caring portion, I didn't see a direct correlation to Christmas. Just keep posting them. :thumb:
 

LarryRB

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we had crypto people change our radio's every morning, if one went down, then all were changed asap after the accident..
I thought I wrote, nothing to do with Xmas poems. These were various things written over a 6 year period when I had the time and enjoyed writing. today, I check in on the net(s) but rarely post,, after all, you can only say so much, then it is repeated over and over.,.. or it gets tiring. I was just elected secretary of our lodge, and this alone takes tremendous time out of any given week.. so less writing still..
 
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