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Old school, circa 1994 flight deck of USS Eisenhower off the coast of Haiti getting ready to fly in.
 
True statement. Took a while to get the smell of port au prince out my nose upon returning to Ft. Bragg back in 95

If I remember the plan was you all to jump into the airfield, but they turned you guys around and we flew in on Blackhawks from the Eisenhower. You are right about the smell of that place though. Every now and then I catch a whiff of a hot ass garbage truck and immediately think of Port Au Prince.
 
I think less than one hour out from TOT and then...abort. “Operation Just Kidding”.

There were two airfields that were going to be seized— Objective Pegasus...

Wish I could say it was a good memory, but it was a total messed up story.
 
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If I remember the plan was you all to jump into the airfield, but they turned you guys around and we flew in on Blackhawks from the Eisenhower. You are right about the smell of that place though. Every now and then I catch a whiff of a hot ass garbage truck and immediately think of Port Au Prince.

Yall are lucky you ain't go to the motherland. That place is a level of hell all unto itself.
 
If you are interested to read more about this op:

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/kretchikw.pdf

https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/P...he Caribbean, 1991-1996 PCN 19000410600_6.pdf

I also went back for a couple days in 2010 after the earthquake but they did not need us (at the time I was commissioned, an enroute care RN/flight RN):

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR300/RR304/RAND_RR304.pdf

Pretty cool read. My Company and Platoon was the first CHOC off of the Eisenhower. I remember landing in that gravel parking lot being pelted by rocks laying behind my ruck sack. I also remember a large cement wall that encircled that parking lot with hundreds of Haitians looking over the top of it. I thought to myself this is one hell of an ambush we’re sitting in. One of the M60 gunners in another platoon accidentally put a burst into that wall when he took up position after exiting the aircraft. I thought the shit was going to hit the fan. I had been in the Army all of 9 months at that time, and I’m hiding behind a ruck sack with an AT4 strapped to the top laying in a parking lot in Haiti. And then there was the flood and floated our camp. Good times.
 
That looks like a FIST-V you fine gentlemen are standing on. Nice picture
YUP! FIST-V, must of been about 1991. Reclasses right after that to a 12B. The M 901 ITV was almost identical except it fired TOWs from the hammerhead.
 
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i don't know if it's good or bad, but i lost all of my pictures from Africa, and i didn't have time to take any in kuwait or qatar
 
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i don't know if it's good or bad, but i lost all of my pictures from Africa, and i didn't have time to take any in kuwait or qatar
Your doing about the same as me. My ex "lost" almost all of my hard copy pictures... anything digital was wiped by a very strong electrical surge in the one computer drive they were on. Or that's what I was told by one of the 3 techs I took it to in efforts to recover the pictures on it. It was funny though because they were on a laptop that hadn't been plugged in for at least 3 years. I have only a few in a box somewhere. Maybe I can find it and post one or two pictures out of it.
 
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Your doing about the same as me. My ex "lost" almost all of my hard copy pictures... anything digital was wiped by a very strong electrical surge in the one computer drive they were on. Or that's what I was told by one of the 3 techs I took it to in efforts to recover the pictures on it. It was funny though because they were on a laptop that hadn't been plugged in for at least 3 years. I have only a few in a box somewhere. Maybe I can find it and post one or two pictures out of it.
i only had digital photos, i have a few on my computer, maybe 4 or 5, but that's it out of the maybe 150 i had, o well, we did a lot of stupid shit that probably shouldn't be seen lol
 
@BU2scwMJL , last August (2019) my uncle died, the last of my mom's siblings to pass. He spent 26 years in the Navy, all of them in the SeaBees (after 4 years in the Army combat engineers). He retired EOCS. He talked one of my cousins into going into the SeaBees, tried to talk me into it, to. I was "this" close.

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Him in the middle (Vietnam):

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YUP! FIST-V, must of been about 1991. Reclasses right after that to a 12B. The M 901 ITV was almost identical except it fired TOWs from the hammerhead.

Ha! Nice!
I was a 13F, and since the FISV was an absolute POS with no defensive weapons.... I mean other than smoke launchers and a mount point for my SAW (Which was dumb, because the mount point was on top of the turret, where the NCO sat, buit it was my personal weapon, so I wouldn't even get to shoot it, just sit there inside that stupid toaster.)
We would actually have the mechanics paint the hammerhead with black circles so it would resemble a TOW launcher....
 
@BU2scwMJL in the Comoros Islands.

Here is the school that they had before you came and built a new one. 25 kids and one teacher in a one room shack built out of sticks and salvaged corrugated roof sheeting.

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Some of you will remember this place...


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Victory Drive? No opportunity to go into town during Basic/ÀIT, no energy at jump school & no time during Jumpmaster school.

I always assumed it was as classy as Ft Sill Blvd or Bragg Blvd :D
 
VD drive...no...but @Crazy Carl might too young to have known it...I think it existed in some form till the mid-90s...but it heyday was long before that.

The Hidden Door was the on-post junior enlisted "night" club at the Benning School for Boys...it was THE PLACE to be on a weekend, on-post pass...it is long gone, just like the All American Club and Red Beret Club at Bragg...this is all back when we still had stripper shows in the clubs on post and 50 cent drafts (25 cent special nights)...these were all gone by around 90 I think...one day they were there, titties and all, the next they were closed.

The final death kneel for these "clubs" was when they gutted the Green Beret Club on Smoke Bomb Hill...now its a "grille".
 
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VD drive...no...but @Crazy Carl might too young to have known it...I think it existed in some form till the mid-90s...but it heyday was long before that.

The Hidden Door was the on-post junior enlisted "night" club at the Benning School for Boys...it was THE PLACE to be on a weekend, on-post pass...it is long gone, just like the All American Club and Red Beret Club at Bragg...this is all back when we still had stripper shows in the clubs on post and 50 cent drafts (25 cent special nights)...these were all gone by around 90 I think...one day they were there, titties and all, the next they were closed.

The final death kneel for these "clubs" was when they gutted the Green Beret Club on Smoke Bomb Hill...now its a "grille".

I thought that name rang a bell. Only free time we had was after graduation day, family day I think they called. Just remember it being a hole in the wall on post. 1993. Speaking of holes in the wall, I recall part of pulling Staff Duty at Fort Drum was assisting the MP's at the club on post at closing times. That shit would get pretty damn wild at times.
 
GB club was awesome till MWR took it over. It was right behind our companies' HQs (PSYOP) & when the Group CSM would ride his Harley across the baseball diamond to the club on a Friday afternoon, that signified that the drinking lamp was lit.

My first trip to Benning was in summer '88, but the only pass we got during OSUT & my grandparents came down. Took me & my battle buddy to Ryan's for steak & gramps bought us a 12 pack of beer to enjoy in our hotel room. 2nd & 3rd trips were 10 & 16 years later & tiddies & beer were further down the priority list than career development.
 
GB club was awesome till MWR took it over. It was right behind our companies' HQs (PSYOP) & when the Group CSM would ride his Harley across the baseball diamond to the club on a Friday afternoon, that signified that the drinking lamp was lit.

My neighbor growing up was a history teacher at my HS (and then assistant principal), retired SF (back in the mid-70s). He had three daughters, and one son, a year younger than I am, so his son and I became good friends. When I got to junior high and expressed some interest in SF, he'd take me down to Bragg. All through junior high, HS, and college he recruited me hard to join the army and go SF. Anywho, he'd take me down to the Gabriel demonstrations, he'd take me to Mackall, he'd take me to Smoke Bomb Hill. He introduced me to COL. Howard, General Yarborough in Southern Pines, and a few other legends. When I was older he'd take me to the GB Club/GB Parachute Club for beer and chow. Of course I was young and stupid then, if I knew the company I was in, I mean REALLY knew, I would have recorded it for a book. At the time they were just old-timers telling war stories over beer. Looking back, they were movers and shakers of SF in the 50s and 60s.
 
Right after finishing officer school in Pensacola; guy on left is CO of Naval Air Schools Command. Only time I saw him was for this grip-and-grin. Funny story...my two badges/devices I gave up for our class plaque in the background. I also forgot my entire rack, so every ribbon I am wearing, it was because I could buy them at the exchange. (This is not a new issue: last Saturday I forgot my battle belt/holster/mag carriers for class with @TSConver and @Bob Reynolds)
 

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