[Vhfcn-l] Comment from today's pilots

[Darrell Elmore]

Yeah, Vietnam was the cowboy time in Army Aviation.  While I fully respect the aviators of the AF, Navy and USMC, none could collectively compare with magnificent (predominately) young men in their flying machines.  Literally thousands of grunts and such are alive today due to the skills, audacity and balls of those crews.  I have no doubt we lost crews and aircraft due to how they performed, but in the big picture we guys on the ground had full faith in those guys.  We knew they would do what was necessary to support us as well as humanely possible - and maybe beyond that!
Today all services are more like airlines, often more focused on checks in squares than operations. I saw it first hand when the Caribou was transferred from the Army to the AF. Overnight the SF and remote sites were never supported as well as before the turn over.

Moe


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Armstrong via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
To: MoeElmore <MoeElmore at aol.com>
Cc: VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
Sent: Sat, Jan 12, 2019 12:38 pm
Subject: [Vhfcn-l] Comment from today's pilots

  On another Facebook page someone had posted a link about Bruce 
Crandall  and his actions that produced a CMH.


  Here is a comment that is very telling.

Now a days he would have been. Grounded in the return of the first 
flight pending an 15-6, investigation, made RL3 because after being shot 
at and knowing he was hit ,he did not land ,he flew back to 
base......time have changed ,and I'm not sure for the better

-- 
Don Armstrong cavman at dtroop35cav.org
604th Trans / 52nd CAB, Pleiku, Apr / July 68
D Troop 3/5 Cav, Bearcat /Dong Tam , July 68 May 69
http://www.dtroop35cav.org

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