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I was a AH-1G Cobra and UH-1H Huey crew chief. Approx 15 hours left seat time in the UH, some front seat time in the Cobra. WO/pilot candidate till they started RIF'ng out the commissioned officers in '76 '77

Hundreds of hours in the air --NOE flight at 110 knots thru the rolling Topography of Ft. Hood Tx, (with elevations ranging from roughly 400 to 600 feet), coming back with branches in the skid tubes, shredded rotor blade tips was not to rare of an occurrence. Night missions. There were a few accidents -mid airs- etc. I almost got ran over by a M-113 one night. Thereafter I slept in the UH so what I might get an article 15 for it! Twice one WO1 flew us onto live fire ranges that were 'hot' LOL

Lots of maintenance test flights

Lots and lots of weapons exercises, gunnery(m16, M60, 50cal,2.5 rockets 20MM slung off the Cobra) etc.

But the 2-1 Cav incorporated all elements of Cav, and we were in the field 4 months out of the year so there was opportunity to get into other areas somewhat if you wanted. The 2-1 Cav supported the 2nd Ar Div. Gen Patton was our Comdr, met him twice once in the field.

We had a battalion motocross team. I owned and raced a '75 360 Pursang, then a KTM 350(mint 400). Rode the Montesa VR250, Maico 400, Suzuki TM400 and Suzuki RM370.

I almost went into the service mid 71 (combat arms mos) but chickend out at the last minute.

Our unit forward deployed in Korea and Germany, wish I had went to both.

All jobs are needed, without you comms guys, we would be 'deaf'. I can understand why one might be scared in Korea at that time, we were loaded up to go when they hacked up the soldiers in the DMZ.

Well Take Care

Wolf

Biggest scare in Korea was about 3 times a day the north would get about ten or 12 migs and flythem at the border at supersonic. We'd scramble from Osan knowing if they came across we'd be the 1st target and it would happen in about 5 minutes.
5 or 6 times a year we'd have major exercises and in about 3 minutes we'd get a message telling us to stand down as we'd been hit with whatever megaton nuke that hit usually within a hundred meters of the command bunker where we were.
Same thing at the pentagon but there we also had to put up with multitudes of officers, many of which were drafted dumbasses.
Only ones we had any real admiration for was the acadamies grads and the warrent officers. Rest were usually not worth spit.
Also I worked at the Hoffman building for the n.s.a.
Pentagon had about every alphabet agency going through us with their really high classified crap. Scary.
I'll tell you this though, Nixon really was a crook.