My husband was a door gunner... April 1969 - March 1970. He was with 282nd assault, Black Cat at Marble Mountain, DaNang. He made it home and still very much alive 😊❤

Read "Ashes Of Vietnam", an Australian book on VN, super visceral, just short accounts from vets, on before they went, being there, and going home. Sidesteps all the "Paint It Black" playing in the background, "I was there man" stuff and just paints a balls-out picture of confusion and vicious reality. Brutal, non-memorialising, straight ahead Aussie honesty. Some of it's a bit hard to digest.

FM2 ❤

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This will be a very boring pussy loser xHxOxMxOx xGxAxYx xTxRxAxNxNxYx noob video. No Action at all. Im ALWAYS right and i ALWAYS know what the video will be like before watching it

Beast

Back in 1978 in Puerto Rico, we had a gym teacher. And we would make fun of him because he could not stop looking up and around when he talked to us. Later, we learned he was rescue chopper pilot in Vietnam, and they constantly had to look around in order to survive...and he did 😐

Respect 💯💯

This man is a real hero! Bless him

I have a cousin Larry who was a door gunner. Unfortunately he volunteered for a mission in the central highlands when his helicopter was hit and went down with no survivers. He was a single digit midget, he had two days in country left before going back to the states.

Loved flying into Nui Dat,,, best beer and nurses with round eyes

Excellent!

"Ayyy". "Thee" 😏

Good man!

Thank you for your service

When you hear the sound of huey helicoster mean HELP FOOD NEW SOLDIERS A MUNITIONS or AMO. For 10 minutes you feel so good

More than 30.000 canadians joint the us armed forces and not was even spoken about it.

Thank-you for your service and welcome home.

I got the opportunity to gun on a huey for 6 months. Best experience I had in Vietnam. It always was very fulfilling helping the guys who were humping the boonies. I know because I humped the boonies too. I was proud to help those guys.

"Get some, get some"

Nice to hear a Australian 🇦🇺 talk about his time in country makes a change I have heard plenty of Americans god bless them but I think this is the first time I have heard a Australian good to hear

Alf Stewart served in narm

Short video

Sad times spent time

My best buddy Gerry was a door gunner in Nam for 3 tours and was 2 weeks away from discharge and the chopper was shot down by ground to air missile and nothing was left! Bravest soldier I've ever known! Miss him daily! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

A friend of my did 2 back to back tours as a door gunner. After his hitch he joined the Navy. That’s where we met.

The sissies were quite good at kicking butt

My neighbor was a door gunner, not me. He crashed, it was a two beer day ! God Bless

The pilot you mentioned who was unfortunately killed in Warwick during flood relief, was my mum's cousin. He had only been married about a year, if that. His father was an electronic specialist and somewhere in the AWM, is a radio receiver in a bible he made for the Australian P.O.Ws during WWII. At the time, only mum's father escaped to Australia, being qualified on the Catalina FB and was responsible for taking the Dutch officials to Sydney. He was then seconded by the RAAF to instruct Australian pilots on flying this aircraft by the authority of these said officials, however he was considered a deserter by the Dutch marine corps and was denied a pension. His wife, children, brothers and sisters were all prisoners of the Japanese and they were encamped across the road from Australian airmen. Reg, started life working in a bank in Naracoorte in South East of South Australia. He learnt to fly at the local airport, which has now been dedicated to him. I was a few years younger so I did not serve in that conflict, but I did join the army not long after and serve in Afghanistan and Iraq, the invasions period. I have read accounts of him in some books, but this is the first time I have heard of someone who served with him. There is much I would like to ask, if you are willing to talk to me. Just respond to this and we will figure something out. Thank you for your story, your service and welcome home❤

Mate thank you for your and all the rest’s role in protecting us , Cheers .

So much respect and gratitude. They were courageous, stepped up and did their part; it doesn't mean they weren't very afraid sometimes, but they went forward anyway; those are guts.

My dad was in Vietnam, and he said they tried to make him a door gunner in a Huey, but he knew the life expectancy for one was low and he was able to get out of doing it.

I had a friend who fought in Vietnam. His name was Gary Lambert. He died many years ago here in Bay City, Michigan. Before retirement, he worked in the packaging & warehousing department at Michigan Sugar Company driving forklifts and loading rail cars. Gary was a solid, no-nonsense kind of man whom I liked and respected. RIP Gary.

Had an ex door gunner work for me. Calm, cool, never fazed by anything! Great American.

Fascinating!! Thank you!

Good on ya Mate! I love choppers, when you hear them in the area, ya know ya gonna be OK.

I was on the ch47 assault support I did over 1200 hours in the air

Modest man, deserved so much more when he came home. It took so many years before we embraced our Vietnam hero’s. Those that never came back alive should live forever in our hearts. God bless you all, time to rest, you have handed over the baton. I have always admired all Vietnam vets because they deserved a hero’s welcome when coming home which they never got until decades later were they recognised for the hero’s they are.

I know a door gunner and he doesn’t talk about it

Thank you, to these veterans for their GREAT contribution in attemp to stop Communist power expansion!

Myself as a millennial was raised on HiFi music with stereo Casettes and CD quality sound ...so going back to lofi is nonsense but Vinyl is cool since it is natural analog but making it sound low quality and adding beats its just lame ....or unless most GenZs listen to that when they are stoned 😅 Maybe i feel synthwave is nostalgia for me 😅

Always a bit of banter between English and Australia But all good men who fought and died together Respect

You would definitely want this man on your team

Australia lost a lot of young men in Vietnam RIP

Brave Brave Men

IMHO: as in Afghanistan - we never should'v gone there. TREMENDOUS waste of men & materials (young men & Alot'v money wasted - so many innocent humans suffered/died & wreck the land/environment)

THANK-YOU For My Life and Freedom Sir ........

The photographer from whom I bought this film told me that I could push the ISO to 3600. I did, but the result is disappointing; all the photos are very grainy and underexposed. Do you know if it's because I pushed the ISO too far? I shot with a Canon AE-1 Program. Thanks in advance!

400 is a good film speed but not the best for sunny days as you have limited reciprocity of just a few stops or just one stop depending on the camera. If you have a camera that has a maximum shutter speed of 1/4000. I don’t use it for daylight unless it’s overcast or shooting action photography. When testing a new film, test it in light to give you maximum reciprocity to use as many aperture settings as possible. Also did you check out and read its data sheet? This will tell you what you need to know about the film and how to properly process it. Do yo have a film to compare it to. When I tried a new film I used Kodak PlusX and TriX as my standard. Everything was compared to them. Because I got predictable results from them, and the quality was superb.

Nice video my friend! keep it up