FLYING COMMAND & CONTROL
27 April 1967
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| Ed in Vietnam 1967-68 |
I had a really big day yesterday. I started flying at 7:00
a.m. and didn’t finish until 7:30 p.m. I got 9:40 flying time, and I was really
beat! But it was really interesting and dangerous!! I was flying C&C
(command and control) ship and I’d go into an area and pick someone up and the
next ship in would get shot up! I guess someone is looking after me.
Well, it’s still
really warm and we get rain every day, so the ground is always wet. I’m just
glad I have a halfway decent place to stay. Dirty, but at least we have a roof
over our heads.
28 April 1967
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| Gunship in Vietnam |
I have been flying as a command and control ship, and it
has gotten really hairy at times.
You asked what a C&C aircraft is. It is not always a
23, but quite often it is a Huey. Mainly all we do is keep track of the troops
and the actions which they are having and bring in reinforcements, artillery, etc.,
if needed.
FLYING GUNSHIPS, ESCORTING A CONVOY
2 May 1967
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| Escorting a ship convoy |
Well, last month I flew 13 days and 62.9 hours. Already
this month (two days), I have 12 hours, so I’ll probably end up with well over
a hundred hours this month. Today I was in the gunships and we were escorting a
boat convoy south of Saigon. We picked them up at Ben Luc and followed them
down to Tan Tru and back. We got in a couple of small battles, but it’s hard to
say whether we got an VC or not. We sure shot the area up in several places.
Right along the river, southeast of Ben Luc, there was a big battle last night
and we lost 13 troops and I haven’t heard about the VC casualties. But this
whole area is covered with VC.
When we got back, they had an alert so we killed a couple
more hours sitting in bunkers, so all in all, today has been quite busy.
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| Helicopter bombing run (look closely and you can see the gunships) |
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