More than 30 Vietnam air cavalry veterans visited a contemporary air cavalry unit at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. That unit – the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, known as the ...

The day after Wright turned 19, his brother, Grover Wright Jr., died in Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam. Grover, two years older than Larry, was an Army infantryman in the Air Cavalry Troop, 11th ...

The day after Wright turned 19, his brother, Grover Wright Jr., died in Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam. Grover, two years older than Larry, was an Army infantryman in the Air Cavalry Troop, 11th ...

Hesselbein, former president of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association and a retired Northwest Airlines pilot, flew the “Snake” with Army Air Cavalry units in Vietnam in 1972. “It was ...

But their ubiquity also helped bring about a brand new military division: air cavalry, or light infantry deployed by helicopters. The 1st Air Cavalry Division arrived in Vietnam in August and ...

At 26 years old he shipped off to Vietnam and was assigned to A-troop, 1st of the 9th Air Cavalry. "We went out looking to see what had happened the night before, and what we could stir up," he said.

Vietnam, 1969 "Christmas, 1969. [I was] stationed in Dĩ An, South Vietnam as a helicopter pilot with B Trp, 3/17th Air Cavalry. Bob Hope was in Củ Chi that day.

Early in 1969, he was named Outstanding Noncommissioned Officer of the Quarter in his unit at Phu Cat Air Base, Vietnam. After a year in Vietnam, Ten Napel returned home in May 1969 and was discharged ...

A guy, who was new to Vietnam, asked me about riding shotgun. His name was Harold Lee Tyson and he was from Indiana. “We reached a checkpoint and they waved us through and told us they had ...

On the evening of August 17th, the streets of Ho Chi Minh City were filled with excitement as Vietnam’s Cavalry Unit made its historic debut on Nguyen Hue pedestrian street. This event was organized ...

The 1st Cavalry Division’s 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, also known as “Air Cav,” conducted both a change of command and a casing ceremony on June 6, 2024, on Cooper Field, ...

And as far as I know, this guy still lives someplace in Vietnam. ... 1st Air Cav to meet and talk about their experience during what was called the Cambodia Incursion.