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The following is a story written by Edd Hogeboom. Edd is a Charlie Trooper. Reggie-Combat Typist There I sit at the bar in just one of, probably, over a thousand clubs just like it around Saigon. It had been a rough week for me and my guys in the Typing Pool. On Monday, the […]
September 1, 2011
It was late October 1967, we were flying south of An Lo lake reconning the mountain range not far from LZ Uplift. We were getting close to having to return to Uplift for refueling when I noticed something unusual under an out cropping of rocks that was surrounded by high elephant grass. I immediately […]
April 2, 2011
Edd Hogeboom To Honor Those of “The Crossed Sabers” It was a time when his Country called The Army trained him in the finest and latest combat skills of the time Yet his enemy would live in the ground and fight with weapons that time forgot He was about to enter a life of […]
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 […]
February 28, 2011
Julies Story A speech by Julie Kink at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial November 11, 2000 “I’ve only seen one aviator killed since I’ve been here,” my brother wrote in his last letter home, July 14, 1969. He had been in Vietnam for 3 weeks, and was trying to […]
February 27, 2011
It was early January 1968, before Tet, before we moved north to relieve the Jarheads at Khe Shan. I had just blown out my gook wax candle, tucked in the mosquito netting around my rack and finished doing my LL (last light) mosquito check inside the net when suddenly the world around me exploded! Several […]
Charlie Troop 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry Regiment 
November 23, 2011
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