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    Combat Talon I aircraft going to Bone Yard

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    From Max

    Combat Talon I aircraft going to Bone Yard:

    1) Four Aircraft will be flown from Gowen Field, Boise ID.

    a) Thee will go to Davis Monthan AFB, AZ. One will go to Hurlburt AFB, FL.

    B) 63-7785, 64-0555 (Ol' Shakey), 64-0572 to the Bone Yard and 64-0567 down to Hurbie (this tail # is historically significant)

    c) Flying around spring time

    This will be a said day for us old SOF Talon I crewmembers

    30th Anniversary of Operation Eagle Claw

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Wanted to throw this out to some of you AF gents that might have been involed in the mission or new someone that was

    they are planning a Aniversary this April in a couple diff places, i have attched a link for each

    as a young Army PVT, at the time i spent a lot of time in the C130s then, for the real mission i was assigned to the CSAR a/c to cover any one that got in trouble

    to bad it happened the way it did, I still wonder what it would be like now if we did the mission

    thanks

    RLTW

    http://www.specialops.org/events/event_details.asp?id=70365

    http://www.specialops.org/events/event_details.asp?id=39988

    We did the mission --- unfortunatly we didn't complete the mission

    a prop question:

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted · Edited by Skip Davenport

    I don't know the particular instance, but he most likely thought he knew what he was talking about but misstated it. I am not familiar with that book so did he say they feathered them in flight or on the ground?

    The aircraft was on the ground. There were 5 other Herks + the Helos there that night all with engines running blowing sand, minum visability and the burning bus. I as a Talon pilot knowing this crew think they were initially momentary, stunned, surprised by the explosion and confused by what was happening to them. There was most likely a few seconds delay before deciding to shut down/feathering the engines. Also, it takes a few rotations before they actually feather. If I recall from the photos in the book "The Guts to Try" the props appear to be feathered. Just my 2 cents.

    DEADLY PARASITE FROM VIETNAM

    in General

    Posted

    http://tinyurl.com/yjjuhhn

    DEADLY PARASITE FROM VIETNAM NOW WIDOW'S BATTLE

    Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare cancer of the bile ducts caused by parasites found in some drinking water

    Veteran's widow battles killer parasite from Vietnam

    Horseheads woman raises alert about cancer-causing disease

    by Roger Neumann

    In the cruel way that war sometimes works, Vietnam killed Pete Harrison nearly 36 years after he came home.

    Elusive as they were, Pete thought he knew his enemies over there. The Viet Cong. The North Vietnamese. Their sympathizers.

    Nobody ever warned him about parasites in the water he drank, but they were there. Nobody ever mentioned the parasites could cause cancer, but they could. Nobody ever told him that cholangiocarcinoma might kill him some day, but it did.

    Now his widow, Sheila Harrison of Horseheads, is fighting her own war -- against the disease that took her husband's life.

    She does it by alerting other Vietnam veterans, and the health care workers who treat them, to check for this deadly disease. Early and often.

    Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare cancer of the bile ducts, which drain bile from the liver to the gallbladder and into the small intestine.

    Symptoms don't usually develop in the early stages, so the cancer often is well advanced by the time it's discovered.

    "It's a miserable, miserable disease," Sheila said.

    Edward "Pete" Harrison was 58 when he died four years ago next Wednesday -- on Jan. 20, 2006.

    The following year, the Department of Veterans Affairs ruled that his death was service-connected. Sheila was awarded widows' benefits -- small consolation.

    She said it was the VA's first such ruling related to that disease and service in Vietnam. The department has now issued a total of six, she said, "with many more in the works."

    Pete survived wounds from multiple shell fragments in Vietnam, where he served from 1969 to 1970 with the 1st Infantry Division.

    But after he was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma in 2005, he was dead within six months.

    Now, Sheila urges other vets not to wait until it's too late.

    If you Google cholangiocarcinoma and Sheila Harrison, you'll find her write-up about her husband and the disease under the heading "Vietnam Veterans" and, below that in larger type, "Parasite Warning."

    The warning is this: "Have your bile ducts checked before any symptoms occur."

    People everywhere have read the page. Many have contacted Sheila, some with stories similar to hers.

    She offers words of comfort and advice, sometimes helping people maneuver through the VA claims process.

    "A lot of people don't know anything about it until somebody's diagnosed with it," she said of the disease. She and Pete were like that, once.

    She said doctors "are not looking for it in our guys, especially 30 or 40 years after they got out of Vietnam."

    When he got out, Pete, who was a sergeant in the Big Red One, counseled veterans at the Labor Department's office in Corning. He would have been proud of his widow and the work she's doing today.

    "My husband spent his whole working life working for veterans. He said, 'This isn't right; we've got to let veterans know about this,'" Sheila said.

    "He thought it was really important to get the word out, which is why I'm doing what I'm doing."

    Herks to Haiti

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Skip

    Things must have changed around since your day, here's where I got the "MC-130W Combat Spear AKA Wombat stuff from.

    Dan

    And this one:

    All I quoted was Talon history -- OK -- Talon lineage:

    14 aircraft (C-130E(I)) assigned under the name Stray Goose later renamed Combat Talon. The project name for the 3 different configurations was Combat Arrow, Knife, & Spear.

    Slip Sticks

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    My AC (no names, Skip Daven....) would asked that I fill out a Form F before the each first flight in country every day. It would give us info. on how to load the rest of the day.

    yea but if you would have stopped carrying that damn pig around with you all the time we would have had it much better :)

    Dumped car in ocean

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    There was a story that circulated around CRB in the late 60's about a Spare crew that had aquired a jeep from some army outpost. They had private transport until they needed gas and when they needed gas they had no POL card. The jeep was confiscated by the motor pool.

    no we went to the paint shop got some white paint and made a bunch of serial number stencils one of us would go in to fill out the paper work and say we lost the cc and just put the fake serial number on the ticket :)

    Simple and to the point

    in General

    Posted

    Yeah......one of my Sqdn CC's advised me that I was a "relic with an attitude." It sure didn't help matters when I started to crack up laughing in his face. Not the most intelligent move on my part, but at that time I had already been passed over for 0-5 twice and knew that "relic with an attitude" may well have been a compliment to my behalf, and to the "old AFSOC" way's of doing things!

    Kurt

    Bet I know who that was ":)

    Black and Green War Machine (MC-130E)

    in C-130 Prints

    Posted

    I got in this late but what version of the Talon 1 are you trying to draw? This one still has the comm. ant. over the flight deck (pre-UARRSI). I have a picture of a Mod 60 Talon 1 that does not have the QRC 84-02's and pre APQ-122. The color sceme on it is black/green with a white belly.

    FYI -- go back an read all the posts on this -- Casey had to start and stop somewhere. A Black and Green Talon with a white bottom -- I have never seen. Please post.

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