A-10! Awesome damn plane. Back when I was in the 82nd Division Artillery at Bragg I was out with a forward observer as he called in ground support fire from one and it was just amazing. Only thing I ever saw better was calling fire from an AC-130 at night.
Hi Costie, I was with the 18th Airborne Corp a support group for the 82nd at Bragg a long,long time ago... We had all the old guy's from the 11th Airborne who returned from WW11 mixed with the young kids who had just joined up and finished jump school and this made for a unit you would not believe, we thought there was nothing we could not do or would not do...
My love is for the Curtis P40 flying Tiger and the P51 Mustang stallion and which were part of the US Army Air Corp which was made famious by John Wayne in the Flying Tigers movie..
The ships we jumped from was the old C-119 flying Boxcar and the C-130 and 130-B, a jump from 750' out of the C-119 was like stepping off the back steps and never a dull moment
Come back and tell me a little of your service with the 82nd, always had respect for all those wonderful young men and women attached to their units...A fine trained group of men who never disappointed their motto...
Ah, another Bragg survivor eh Dawg? Well I was there during the Reagan era ('84-'88) so much later than the times you talk about but we had the Vietnam Vets still on active duty and the young pups like me (just 18).
It is amusing we were still using the C130... and they are still using it today. I was a combat photographer so they stuck me with DIVARTY since that way I had a connection to every infantry brigade.
Two years there and never once deployed anywhere so I got transferred up to XVIII Corps headquarters where I was on the staff of the base newspaper:
http://paraglideonline.net/
There I got sent out to Egypt, Panama, Honduras and Ecuador. Would never change the time I did but am glad I crossed over to the Coast Guard, a lot more satisfaction on a day-to-day basis.
Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 8:27PM
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A-10! Awesome damn plane. Back when I was in the 82nd Division Artillery at Bragg I was out with a forward observer as he called in ground support fire from one and it was just amazing. Only thing I ever saw better was calling fire from an AC-130 at night.
Hi Costie,
I was with the 18th Airborne Corp a support group for the 82nd at Bragg a long,long
time ago... We had all the old guy's from the 11th Airborne who returned from WW11
mixed with the young kids who had just joined up and finished jump school and this
made for a unit you would not believe, we thought there was nothing we could not do
or would not do...
My love is for the Curtis P40 flying Tiger and the P51 Mustang stallion and which were
part of the US Army Air Corp which was made famious by John Wayne in the Flying
Tigers movie..
The ships we jumped from was the old C-119 flying Boxcar and the C-130 and 130-B,
a jump from 750' out of the C-119 was like stepping off the back steps and never a dull
moment
Come back and tell me a little of your service with the 82nd, always had respect for all
those wonderful young men and women attached to their units...A fine trained group of
men who never disappointed their motto...
This is one of those photos that give you that feeling that you can't fully describe.
Coastie, Dawg and others on this forum, thank you for your service to this country.
HB: Amen to that! God bless all of those that served!
Ah, another Bragg survivor eh Dawg? Well I was there during the Reagan era ('84-'88) so much later than the times you talk about but we had the Vietnam Vets still on active duty and the young pups like me (just 18).
It is amusing we were still using the C130... and they are still using it today. I was a combat photographer so they stuck me with DIVARTY since that way I had a connection to every infantry brigade.
Two years there and never once deployed anywhere so I got transferred up to XVIII Corps headquarters where I was on the staff of the base newspaper:
http://paraglideonline.net/
There I got sent out to Egypt, Panama, Honduras and Ecuador. Would never change the time I did but am glad I crossed over to the Coast Guard, a lot more satisfaction on a day-to-day basis.
ALL THE WAY!