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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130168819.jpg Joeaksa, My MOS was 96-H. During the Vietnam era this was called "Technical Observer", but was later renamed "Aerial Intelligence Specialist". New name, same job: Aerial recon. (the 96-H mos is now completely redesignated, as the Mohawks were all decommissioned and the specialty was reassigned to egg beaters) I'll not bore you too much with the history of the aircraft, but will provide THIS LINK - THIS LINK - and THIS LINK. During the Vietnam ers, satellite imagery was not as good as it it now. Probably because it was mostly non-existant. So our little birds flew around with cameras, IR, and SLAR to detect enemy movement and report it back to base. Or to take photos for planning. Some Mohawks were even fitted with ground attack weaponry, and called "Whispering Death". The people who flew in them just called them "widowmakers." They had such a low survivability rate that were were instructed to eject at any sign of mechanical failure. (Engine out? EJECT! - Rudder malfunction? EJECT! - A/C failure? EJECT!!) I was stationed at Fort Huachuca. The others in service were stationed in Korea and Germany. All of us had the same peacekeeping role; which was "training." (We really did have missions, but were all "classified" and so were called training missions) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130170941.gif Pretty much, I think our job then was what the UAVs are doing now. Side note: Four OV-1C's were used by the US Customs Service in the '70's to mid '80's to intercept drug smuggling aircraft. The OV-1C's were modified ex-US Army machines with military equipment removed. |
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Cool post. Some of my favorite pics: http://www.dm.af.mil/AMARC/images/arials/Aerial13-1.jpg F-15 ready for shipment via truck: http://131.6.12.208/AMARC/images/f15crat3.jpg |
I'm glad I'm not the guy who has to peel off all that spraylat!
Here's another nice F16 pic: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130175003.jpg |
And now back to our regularly scheduled programme:
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Sebring, 1961, SO33 Westfalia with deluxe trim
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The -15 is a lot better fighter but now that the -16 has not been having a Class A every other week guess its doing ok Cash, spent some time at Fort Hunch-a-huck in the '80's. Lots of "interesting" stuff going on there, and bet its still in the works these days. Had a lot of friends who were Ravens as well as working for AA and CAS over in SEA. Love the old O-1 but when the OV-10 came around the FAC's had a lot more to work with than a few WP rockets and a grease pencil. Anyway, fly safe... JoeA |
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I was there in the late 80's, and our group called it "Fort Wegotcha". Interesting stuff, you say?? One of the challenges of daily mission planning was getting around all the "no-fly" areas on the map where seeeecret things were happening. Some of the areas would move from day to day! I have to admit that when you first mentioned RAVEN, it threw me. It is a name we did not use, and I think from this new post that I have figured out the problem. By chance, were they Marines?? I remember there were several OV-10s on the flight line, but they belonged to a Marine training detachment stationed on the base. There may have been some crossover, but I understood that the O-1 and OV-1 were ARMY, the O-2 was Air Force, and the OV-10 was Marine. I believe all of these served similar roles. And for all those who don't know them by name, you can compare the OV-1 Mohawk which I posted previously to the following OV-10 Bronco, then to the O-2 Skymaster, and finally to the O-1 Birddog at the bottom of this page: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130189379.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130189589.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130189623.jpg Photos were found online, and I ascert no claim of ownership. They are the property of their respective copyright holders. |
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Big Ed was reffering to a previous thread.
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Don't even think about trying to out run this thing...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130210219.jpg
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That would be "The little slow ugly blue car"
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I'll name it "Julie"
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