Annual Reunions...
1986 St Louis
1988 San Francisco
1999 Nashville
2000 DC
2001 Las Vegas
2002 Las Vegas
2003 Houston
2004 Las Vegas
2005 St. Louis
2006 St. Louis
2007 St Louis
2008 St. Louis
Special Events:
2006 Memorial Day Observations in D.C.
2009 Monument Dedication at Airborne and Special Operations Museum
2009 St. Louis
2010 St Louis
2011 St Louis
2012 St Louis
2013 St. Louis
2014 Branson, Missouri
2015 St. Louis, Missouri
2016 Fayetteville
2017 D.C. and Arlington National Cemetery
2018 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
2019 San Antonio, Texas
2020 New Orleans, LA -CANCELED
2021 Savannah, GA
2022 NEW ORLEANS, LA
2023 Dayton, OH
Mini Reunions
Mesa, AZ. A mini where ever we meet. L-R: Paul, Gail Talley, Jay, Doris Hays and Cheryl, Frank Becker.
75 degrees and we are not missing the snow or cold weather.
Each year the 281st AHC
Association holds a reunion. This annual reunion is held in conjunction
with the General Membership Meeting for the Association. The men of the
281st first formed up in 1986 at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois and then again
in 1988 at San Francisco, California. This first attempt at forming an
association seemed to have wavered a bit, but interest was again sparked in 1998 when a small group of guys got together in Ft Worth, TX at the Vietnam
Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA) Reunion; they decided to make an
all out effort to try again to form an organization. Temporary officers
were elected, a hat passed for funds and at the next VHPA Reunion in
Nashville, TN an organizational meeting was held, officers elected and the 281st
AHC Association was born.
The Washington, DC
meeting of the VHPA was the next reunion for the new organization. After
two years with VHPA, the membership decided to hook up with the Special
Operations Association (SOA) for the next two (2001 and 2002) reunions.
These were held in Las Vegas. At its 2002 Reunion the membership decided
to cut loose from other organizations and hold a stand alone reunion, this time
in 2003 at Houston, Texas. In 2004 the Association returned to Las Vegas
for a joint reunion with SOA and, until 2014, reunions were held in St
Louis.
Please follow the links
above to view the various reunion pictures. Older pages may require the use of your back arrow to return here.