Laos
Special Operations Mission from Nakhon Phanom RTAFB, Thailand
to Mu Gia Pass, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Laos.
Fall 1970
— Air Force Magazine On Line
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Tactical Units Operations
Center, NKP, Thailand
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My gear at TUOC |
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Special Ops and SAR CH-3 Jolly
Green
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Two variants of the A-1
Skyraider on the line;
will join up on mission. |
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Lift off of (two of three) Jolly
Greens on an Insert mission
near Mu Gia Pass, on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Laos. |
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Leader (Capt. Will Waldo) "over the fence"= crossing the Mekong. Flew the mission with a cocked nose wheel; one of the two birds that should not have been permitted to fly with a red tag like that. Had to anyway. |
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Capt. Will Waldo (with cocked nose wheel) and Capt. Dave Schull (gear wired down: feared it would not operate if retracted). 2 red-tagged Jollys: best 3 of 13 Jollys on the line that day had to fly. A-1 Skyraider escort in distance. |
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Capt. Dave Schull's CH-3 with wired-down landing gear. |
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Schull's Jolly over Laotian karst on return trip. |
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Vertical karst on outbound for "Naked Phanny" (NKP) Nakhon Phanom |
Capt. Mike