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I just sent off for my military personnel records asking them for all of my DD214's, APR's and Vietnam travel vouchers. I received all that I requested. 15 DD214's, all of my APR's from 1958 till 1977 and my Vietnam travel vouchers. There have been many of you trying to prove that you were in Vietnam. The travel vouchers will prove that you were there. I was very surprised that I received the travel vouchers. When you send for the records it may take six to eight weeks. When you do send for them tell them what information you want. They will need: Your full name, date of birth, where you were born, Social Security Number, Air Force serial number, and where you were born, and the date and times you were in the service. This is the address you will need to use: National Personnel Records Center 1 Archives Drive St. Louis, MO 63138-1002

Has any body read the latest Air Force Times. It looks like reterment will never be the same.

You can get some great pictures on you tube. Just type in cam ranh bay vietnam

Type cam ranh bah on you tube you will see great pictures of cam ranh bay

You must talking about H modles I sure there wasen,t any starter valve light on the Emodles.

Go to www.e benefits.va.gov the first thing you have is to register and go to my pay to get a pas word it could take a week or so to get the pass word back to you. you will have to fill out va form 10-5345a to start the process.

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I made a mistake when i said you would get 60% for ichemic heart disease. I should said the avreage you could ger was 60% I received the results of my claim from the VA and it was 30%. I was receiving 80% and the 30% didn't increase my pay.

Trying to help a Army person he was in Vietnam'Laos and Cambodia they were secret missions. He sent off and got his military records and they show he never left Fort Bragg. He is having some medical issues but can't get any help. Did any body ever fly any army people in to Laos or Cambodia. All of thoes missions should declassified by now

Was never stationed there . when i got out of basic training in 1957 i went to the PX and bough my wife a wedding ring at Ardmore AFB. Ihave been mrried to her 53 years and live about 40 miles from the old base.

See if you can find a old APR that stated you were thereor a travel voucher showing you were there. If you recevied a medal while you were there other than the VSM. If you know some one that knew you were there he can sign a statment saying you were therw

If you can prove you had boots on the ground in Vietnam and had heart bypass surgery the VA will give you 60% disibilty.

Type cam ranh bay tiger lake on you tube and you will see were you could water skie and do other things

Type Camranh Bay Tiger lake on you Tube and you will see were special service had a place were you could water skie and do many other things.

Does any body rember the 5BX physical fitness test we had to take once a year back in the early 60's ?

Type The C130 Hercules in Vietnam on You Tube there many interesting things on this site once you are on it you can move around to many didifferent toppics.

I was wandering if anybody ever water skied at cam ranh. One time in the early 70's when we were there on the shuttle and we had a day off the pilot said us all go water sking tomorrow I thought he was crazy. Special services rented boats and water skies it was about two miles behind ihe run way. The water was a little choppie but we all had a good time.

If any of you haven't checked out this site they have some interesting things on. It is a bout the 17th TAS that was stationed in Alaska. I spent the last three years of my career there. They have a lot of interesting photographs of the runway of all the radar sites, we used to supply plus our mission to Greenland. If you do check it out please sign the guest book. To get on the webpage just type in the Firebird Association in your Google's block.

If you have a large PX close to you you can probably get one there. I know here at tanker Air Force Base in Oklahoma they have vendors at the PX and I see them there all the time not only C-130s but just about all military aircraft and the price is really not that bad I have one of my daughter got me.

I found your name's on the crew list. Capt. kitchen, AC Lieut. Anderson Gary L. CP Dykes Clifford E.Nav Guy William T. Sgt. flight engineer Brasfield Michael Sgt. loadmaster. I wish I could remember you all but it seems that time has erased my memory

I was in Alaska when they changed from Tac to Mac.All of the time i was in TAC I never had any problem with supply in fact they were over generous. Ever so often the Sq commander would tell us to go to supply and get things we didn,t even need so supply would be sure and keep all the things on hand we would need. In fact i was issued so much i still have some things i still use to day. I guess if i were treated like you Sam i would feel the same way. One of the changes i didn't like the FE had to start filling out a fuel from the time you started taxing till the time you landed you had to write down fuel flow and tit and what altitude you were when you landed the fuel that the fuel flow indicater showed you used had to be right. I know i am not telling this right i can't rember . you had to fill out this form only if you flew over five hours . I am sure some know what i am trying to tell you the number of the form started with a 6 i think. I had flew for 9 years and never had to fill out this form and didn't see any need to start doing it. .To me it was a pain in the butt.

soory i can't renmber but i will check the crew list i have of that time period.

How many of you were in TAC when we changed to MAC and how did you like it. I didn't like it there were too many changes . I thought we had been operating the C-130 just fine while we were in TAC for all those years and we did not need a bunch of new regulations and operating procedures. I disliked the change so much I couldn't stand to wear the MAC. Patch on the flight suit.

Back in the days when I was a crew chief in SAC. They gave you an aircraft and it was yours. You had a assistant crew chief and that was a official position. You were proud to have. You also had one or two helpers they were the lowest position on the aircraft. When you're aircraft came back from a mission it was yours to fix and you worked around the clock if necessary till it was ready to fly.We call the other people on the aircraft second and third wipers this wasn't a bad title they were good men they just didn't have a lot of experience. You didn't ask for any help from from other people. But it was good in a way when you're aircraft was ready to fly the whole crew was off till it was scheduled to fly I under stand why they finely had to change to a different system because the old way took so many more people. You had to be an NCO to be a crew cheif . I can rember when a lot of M/Sgt were crew cheif's You don,t hear of that to day

Just had a few thoughts I thought I would share with you and nothing big just thinking of the past. I suppose all you vets that came back from Vietam , where probably just like me. After I come back to the states I really never thought about Vietnam. For the rest of my career the subject just didn't seem to come up. After retiring from my civilian job with a lot of time on my hands I found the Herky Bird site and Vietnam came back to my memory like it was yesterday. There is no way we can thank Sam and Casey for all the work they have put in keeping this site going we all ouw lot to them. Like a lot of flight engineers we have a maintenance background and a lot of us were crew chief's in SAC we went through flight engineer school. Then to Pope then straight overseas and were flying. Our first combat mission a few days later. I arrived in CCK the last of December 1966 after spending leave time at home for Christmas. When I flew my first mission out of CCK it was a local and it must have been six weeks since I have flown last and I felt like I forgot everything I was a nervous wreck the copilot started the check list and said GTC I sat there like a not only a log staring at the overhead panel I didn't have a clue where the gTC starts,switch which was. Finally, the copilot pointed to the The gtc start pannel. After I got it started I calmed down and everything seemed to come back but I will have to say I was embarrassed terribly. I flew my first combat mission out of Nha Trang it was a night mission and they started shoting at us right after lift off boy did I get my attention. All of us, flight engineers were NCO as you well know. I will have to take my hat off to the loadmaster's. Most of them were two and three stripers didn't have a lot time in the service . And they were probably fresh out of loadmaster school. They were very young and they did a great job. I came back to the states stayed about a year then went to Clark for two years when I came back from Clark I was at Little Rock and seen the first woman in a miniskirt and I'd never seen that before and I also noticed that all the men were wearing baseball caps. This site has brought a lot of us together we have so much in common most of you guys seem like brothers I enjoy this site very much. I know that i have made typing mistakes and sometimes I don't spell correctly but none of you have chastised me and thank you for it. I am a great grandpa now, and like most of you flight engineers that were in Vietam we are in our 70's. If any of you haven't Googled CCK AER BASE . Taiwan lately try it there is alot of new stuff on it. It even has some herky bird post on it.