[Ax]

I’ve only made two Huey flights in my life. Flew from Tan Son Nhut up to Nui Ba Den. Anybody who says that he wasn’t scared shirtless on his first flight over Injun Country is either lying though his teeth or has balls the size of pumpkins.

[M-cubed]

Maybe your 1st flight.....But I gotta tell ya...Every day I always thanked my lucky stars that I wasn't one of those poor bastards that I just dropped off!! (and i say that lovingly to all my grunt friends!)

I knew I was gonna sleep fairly securely!!

as one old “higher up” explained.....Men are expendable...Helicopters are not!....(I got to go with the Bird) and BTW....Welcome home Brother.......

[M-cubed]

oh, I forgot...scared?...Hell Yeah!...its called “The Pucker Factor”...measured on a 10 scale...around 6..your balls suck up to the size of peas and your a$$hole slams shut so tight u couldn't drive a crowbar in it...*W*

(It's kinda funny now...but crew-members actually did use the pucker factor when discussing the days events)

[elcid1970]

Oh jeez you brought back my biggest regret flying in Vietnam we had an add-on mission to Nui Ba Den the mountain of the Black Virgin. I remember climbing toward that big peak it was like a pyramid I tried to get some photos but just then I ran out of film! We landed on a platform there were like stone building ruins around. Took off & went from the summit right down the mountainside & there were no foothills, old Nui Ba Den just rose out of the level ground around it.

At night in our AO we could see the threshhold lights of the active at Tan Son Nhut. Came back forty years ago this month August. All seems like yesterday.

[Harold Shea]

Not everyone that flew on those Slicks were too dumb

or lying that they were not scared...we were just young

The first time we went out to Khe Sahn I rode in a jeep

with a drunk Sgt driving..went into a rice field,lost

my m16,its a wonder thinking back it didn`t overturn

and land on us