KIA-MIA Files  | Died After Tour  | Then and Now | Stories and Postings | Past Remembrance Events | Remembrance

Then and Now...

                     WARRIORS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT

As the world watches the war Iraq and Afghanistan unfold on their television sets there is a group of very special people who also watch with great interest, but from a different viewpoint. These are the warriors of the 281^stAssault Helicopter Company. This now graying group of very special men watches as the tactics and techniques that they developed thirty years ago in another war, in another place, are employed in what could well be America’s greatest war. It would be wrong if we did not explain that these were truly young men. But then, wars are fought by young men.

THEN

First Delta Operation,  (Photo by Jack Green)
L-R, 1st LT Junichi E. Yahiro, UNK, SP/4 George Crossen & CPT Jack Green

 

6th Aviation Platoon pilots, photo taken at Tan Son Nhut in October or November 1965.
Front Row:     Lee Smith, Unknown Dobbs?), Chuck Baird, Jon Osgood, John Parziale, Bill Hale, Dale LeClerc, John Meadows.

281st Group Photo taken at Fort Benning prior to shipping out for Vietnam.  March 1966


  CPT. Morud,  1st SGT McClendon,       MAJ. Hackett,          Maj. Wilson, & 1st SGT Cooley
CO 483rd         1st SGT 483rd                  CMDR                         XO                   1st SGT

WOLF PACK - PROJECT DELTA - 1966/67
3rd Row:  Bob Moberg, Al Larson, Eldon Smith, Barkley Boyd, Bill Brennan, Dennis Petrevich
2nd Row:  Jessie Hunt, Phil English, Gary Omdahl, Ray Ronchette, Wes Komulainen, John Hood
L -R, 1st Row:  Bill Harris, Richard McMillan, Joe Shipes , Francis Boisseau, Bob Klarner, Don 'Corky' Corkran
 

Note from Rick Galer, WP Pilot

Updated: June 2006