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HELICOPTER PILOT PLANNING Or… IT TAKES FOUR PILOTS TO MAKE ONE PLAN WORK Written by: Vaughn Lane Cavalier 28 The ending was near magic. The plan showed the heart of Army aviation…very little thought and a lot of luck. Kind of like the Marines, actually. You know, just keep going, defer to bravery over […]
January 27, 2017
Crew Chief PFC Mike Askew At the beginning of 1967 I knew absolutely nothing about Huey gunships, or M60 door guns. Absolutely nothing about Saigon, the South China Sea, or the 1st Air Cav. I was clueless about the political reasons why the United States was so enthusiastically sending 19 year olds to […]
October 21, 2016
I will not waste anyone’s time by trying to rewrite articles I find about this Great Innovator/Soldier. You can put “Col John B. Stockton” into your search engine and find many great articles about this man. All I intend to do is post his epitaph/obituary or whatever you would like to call it and post […]
October 14, 2016
At the reunion in Branson, SFC Donald Coshey made Carol an Official Charlie Trooper for the work that she does for the Charlie Troop 1st of the 9th Cavalry Reunions. Carol kidded and said “Well, now that I am a Charlie Trooper men, I need a Stetson”. Within 10 minutes a Stetson was […]
July 15, 2016
Charlie Troop 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment Thirsty-Six October 2016 News Letter The following Troopers from Charlie Troop gave their lives during the month of October from 1965-1972: It is up to us to live our lives to the fullest because these men cannot. They live through us and our actions. Always Remembered and Never […]
August 2, 2015
Those of us old enough to know that General of the Army (5 Stars), General Douglas MacArthur spoke those words in front of Congress when he was forced to Retire. Whether we wanted to retire or was forced into retirement, the majority of us have several things in common. Sooner or later, we will all […]
July 9, 2015
The following pictures were taken by Soldiers Photo at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
July 8, 2015
A special 50th Anniversary Reunion was held in Columbus, Georgia June 30 through July 2, 2015. This was a reunion whose main intention was to Honor the Men of Charlie Troop, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, Alpha Troop, Bravo Troop and Delta Troop who left Columbus, Georgia in August of 1965 to go to Vietnam. The […]
October 13, 2014
The 3rd Annual Charlie Troop Reunion was held from October 2nd thru the 5th, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The following pictures are from there: Pat and Carol Bieneman Don and Jo Coshey Gordon and Susan Jones Larry and Jeanie Oestringer Phil and Brenda Merritt Ernie and Rose Cairns Jerry and […]
July 29, 2014
The following are stories of two Charlie Troopers and their en counters with the enemy: We were in Tay Ninh I’m sure. Early 1971. I was a Cobra pilot then, living like most of us, crowded together in cots under a General Purpose Medium tent stretched across a Chinook revetment at the northwest […]
Charlie Troop 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry Regiment 
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