Combat Tour and your Rolex

[GradyPhilpott]

I didn't even know what a Rolex was when I did my combat tour.

Vietnam '68-'69 I Corps USMC

[armypilot]

Desert Shield/Storm 1990-1991
OIF 2004-2005, 2010-2011

[KBM]

Originally Posted by Psmith

Not a Rolex, but its famous 'brother-in-arms'... and what a story...

http://blancpain.watchprosite.com/sh...ti-811728/s-0/

Great link, thanks for posting!

[Gecko10]

Vietnam 67-68, 70-71. Retired Army Aviator, AH1G mostly. GMT Master

[Gecko10]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

I didn't even know what a Rolex was when I did my combat tour.

Vietnam '68-'69 I Corps USMC

Where are you at Grady? I'm in Farmington. I was in I Corps also, at Camp Evans. Did a lot of support of you guys during TET 68 at Hue. A target rich environment so to speak

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by Gecko10

Where are you at Grady?

I'm in ABQ. I didn't get to Vietnam until August '68, but I was wounded in Tet '69. That was the end of my tour.

I love the Cobras!

Semper Fi and a HooAhh!

[armypilot]

Originally Posted by Gecko10

Vietnam 67-68, 70-71. Retired Army Aviator, AH1G mostly. GMT Master

Hooahh! I so miss the Cobra. Flew them from 1990-2001. AH-1S(Mod), AH-1P, AH-1E, AH-1F and NASA-736 NAH-1S(Mod) The AH-64 and UH-60's are great aircraft but just don't have the soul the Cobra did. Here's a picture of when we were ferrying our last six for turn in at Ft. Drum NY in Sep 2001. And a picture of when I was flying at NASA-Ames from 1992-1996.

[Gecko10]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

I'm in ABQ. I didn't get to Vietnam until August '68, but I was wounded in Tet '69. That was the end of my tour.

I love the Cobras!

Semper Fi and a HooAhh!

Well you didn't miss much!

[Gecko10]

Originally Posted by armypilot

Hooahh! I so miss the Cobra. Flew them from 1990-2001. AH-1S(Mod), AH-1P, AH-1E, AH-1F and NASA-736 NAH-1S(Mod) The AH-64 and UH-60's are great aircraft but just don't have the soul the Cobra did.

Yep, they were something else. Got to fly them also in Germany, In the Fulda Gap area when we were first developing nap-of-the-earth tactics, and Korea as well where I commanded a "Avn Co/Cav Squdrn"

[armypilot]

Originally Posted by Gecko10

Yep, they were something else. Got to fly them also in Germany, In the Fulda Gap area when we were first developing nap-of-the-earth tactics, and Korea as well where I commanded a "Avn Co/Cav Squdrn"

Awesome! I never got to fly the G but the S(Mods) had the round canopy and if we took the wing stores off, the Lycoming T53-L703 could get them to do about 155kts straight and level. After the Cobra I transitioned into the Apache and then in 2004 the Army said we need more Blackhawk pilots for Iraq and guess what your going to be a Blackhawk pilot. What a bummer! I tell people I fly Blackhawks, but I will never be a "Blackhawk Pilot" Go Guns!!!

[JJW]

Thanks all you armed forces guys and gals. You're doing a great job.
Stay safe.
John
USN USS Hancock CVA 19 1958 - 1961

[newbieincali]

Ill never forget being in North Carolina and having an Apache doing maneuvers over my boat as I was fishing.. Amazing what they can do.

[armypilot]

Originally Posted by newbieincali

Ill never forget being in North Carolina and having an Apache doing maneuvers over my boat as I was fishing.. Amazing what they can do.

Yep, the Apache is an awesome and very capable aircraft and I did enjoy flying it. It just doesn't have a soul like the Cobra did. It's just a big, brutish, very complicated aircraft and I felt more like a systems manager then a pilot in it. The Blackhawk is the same way.

[AF_Rob]

OIF '03
OIF '05
OEF '07
OIF '08

14060M, but the watch stayed home. My Casio was my buddy over there.

[steve-o]

Desert Shield/Desert Storm
Gulf War 1 and 2 (at various times places)