God When I started this Blog I stated that some of the Posts on here will be my opinion. This is one of them. I am a firm believer on God Almighty and in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I don’t hide my faith from anyone. I am not a Church going […]
March 25, 2011
Before the 1st Cavalry Division was even formed there was another Helicopter unit already in Vietnam. They were Proud, Fearless and Professional. We of Charlie Troop are proud to let the world know about these men. Once upon a time, there was a band of Army Aviators and their crewmen that operated the Army’s first armed helicopter […]
March 19, 2011
Charlie Troop 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry Regiment has a Yahoo site where we can talk back and forth through “Posts”. While Charlie Troop had more enlisted men than officers it seems as though there are more officers than enlisted on our site. There are reasons for this. Most of our officers went through prolonged […]
March 8, 2011
General Vo Nguyen Giap. General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his […]
March 7, 2011
Lionel DeLaRosa moved to Fiddler’s Green June 10,2010 Lionel DeLaRosa USA, ret Black Stetsons, Golden Sabers The day we flew out to Pleiku to join the troop in the field it was so foggy that the birds were walking and all other flying creatures were grounded yet we took off without a […]
March 6, 2011
I woke at first light on the morning of January 31, 1968 at Landing Zone (LZ) Evans. I was tired and dirty from a night spent in a shallow fox hole with my friend and wingman Lynn Freeman who was affectionately known as “The Chief”. What little sleep we got was interrupted by two “Mox […]
March 27, 2011
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