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It was probably September ’69 or so. I was off flight status due to recovering from injuries involving a round through my OH-6A engine while hovering at about 150′ above ground, over triple canopy, having just located our LRRP Team that had been compromised earlier in the day. It was probably around 8:30 or a […]
February 19, 2012
It Is Our Obligation It is my belief, as it is of many who served in Southeast Asia; that if everyone does not make it back, then there is a little part of each of us left behind. For this reason, I think it is critically important to each one of us, men and women […]
November 29, 2011
(Some Borrowed, Some written true and some don’t know where from – but they sounded cool! edd hogeboom) 1. Once you are in the fight, it is way too late to wonder if this is a good idea. 2. Helicopters are cool! 3. It is a fact that helicopter tail rotors are instinctively drawn […]
November 25, 2011
Jack had asked Edd if he knew for sure who was 22. 22 is a call sign assigned to a pilot in the Red or Attack Cobra Platoon. Edd Call sign was 16 because he was the Scout Platoon Commander. Jack’s call sign would have been from 31 to 36 since he was a […]
November 24, 2011
To Honor Those of “The Crossed Sabers” Poetry Word Count: 671 edd hogeboom edd@BlessedBooks.com 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 […]
November 23, 2011
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 […]
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 […]
Charlie Troop 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry Regiment 
November 22, 2020
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