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347th TAS Blanket orders to SEA from Dyess between July thru Sept '68


Gary Davidson
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Hi everyone... I'm doing this on behalf of my father Joe Davidson. Trying to find the blanket orders with his name on them for VA benifits. He has prostate cancer and they will not give him the credit for being at CRB because he has no food vouchers or the orders that came with them. He has had 2 people that went with him to CRB to send in certified letters saying he was there at the same time with them even had his former supervisor send in a letter to no avail. The 2 people that was with him were Chuck Miller and his brother Al Miller they was on the 2nd sheet of the orders but my father was on the first sheet. If anyone knows of anybody who was in the Crew Cheif part of the squadron that may still have the full set of orders or just the first page please ask them it would surely be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the service you have done and still for us. He also has a campaign ribbon for when he was there for the Tet Offensive Gary Davidson

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Ok here we go. Can somone explain to me not in great detail but just give me a clue as to how the Agent Orange was loaded onto the acft. like was it in bags, barrels. My dad doesnt talk to much about it and I think all I'm doing is spinning my wheels on the net just trying to get some kind of clue to help him. Our deal is he had orders to Tachi and then rotated to Cam Rahn Bay. Im also trying to understand how he said sometimes he would go to all these different places as a crew cheif when someone needed a CC ugh im confused. Giz I just got him the ppwrk for that sf180 and he mailed it off today so we will see what happens if he can get his travel vouchers. But if someone could just give me some more advice I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys for all your service. Oh yeah his time at Cam Rahn was late May to early Sept 1968. Just in case they changed how things were being done through the yrs in VN.

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Hello Gary. I did many rotations to CRB while stationed at Clark AB, P.I. from 69-70. As far as C-130's hauling AO it would have been in 55 gal drums with an orange band around the drum. C-130's never sprayed it. They used C-123's in operation Ranch Hand to spray AO. As a crewchief on a C-130 at that time we usually had a Crew Chief and an asst. assigned to each aircraft at it's home base, Clark, CCK and Naha . They normally went with the aircraft in-country when it rotated in and maintained the bird while there...with the help of the back shops ie. elect,eng, hyd sheet metal. Normally the crew chief did not fly with his bird after arriving in country. Just the basic aircrew flew the daily missions. When a crew chief's aircraft broke down while on a sortie in counrty, such as a blown or flat tire, engine change or many other problems they encountered, the assigned crew chief would normally be sent with parts and specialist required to fix the bird to get it back to it's in country bed down base..CRB,TSN or wherever. If for some reason the assigned Crew chief could not be located they would ask for a volunteer CC to take his place to fix the aircraft. Also AO was sprayed on the bases to kill the vegetation around the primeter to make it harder for the Viet Cong to sneak into the base. On an AO site on the web I found that they sprayed 21,227 gallons of AO and 1,373 gallons of AW on CRB . Hope this helps you to understand the part the C-130 and it's people did in VN just a little better. ( Another thought) Also Gary since your dad was TDY from Dyess to Tachi there would have been many times when he may have been picked by his Flight Chief in a hurry to just "Get on the bird and go in country" as happened to me also while TDY from Sewart AFB Tn to Clark AB P.I. in 64 and 65. Some times they would have an add on mission and would just grab whoever was on hand. On these TDY rotations from the states to Clark and Tachi, the crew chief flew all the missions with the crew when they went "in country" where as when you were PCS to Clark, CCK and Naha we didn't fly that much while on rotation in country at CRB. Usually when TDY back then there were guys who wanted to fly on every mission and then there were guys who only wanted to stay on the ground...sounds like your dad was the former. That's why he was always on the go. Bill

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Thanks for some clarification Bill. After reading what you had said I asked my dad how long was he at Tachi.. he came back and said well it depends when he was first there he stayed one day then went to CRB then flew to guam then back to Tachi for one day then went back to CRB then went here and there. Thanks again for your clarification. Gary

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