Pondtoons

[SuperDave336]

Jeez was that stuff evil and nasty. Very sorry to hear of your health issues. We went on a tour a few years ago and met an army medic that was around it for his tour. His brother talked a bit to us privately and said his brother has suffered with after effects his whole life. Of course the VA really stood up and did the right thing….
Bob

That agent orange is what they blamed for my fathers cancer. Sadly it took him back in 2017. Going to VA for the 2 yrs he fought it, it was amazing the amount of Vietnam veterans suffering from what I believe was from agent orange. Basically they told my mom if he had boots on the ground he was exposed and they helped. Don’t know why they thought spraying poison would be good idea.

[BJH]

Dave you can see on my post me sitting in the door of my UH-1B Huey gun ship. We used to fly cover for the C130's that did the spraying. It never failed they would have a malfunction with the spray system and we would wind getting caught in the spray. My green ship would be red and i would be covered also. It was one heck of a job gitting that stuff off the ship. Talking 4-5 hours of washing. Sorry about your dad, have lost several crew members to that stuff.

[DockShootinJack]

Dave you can see on my post me sitting in the door of my UH-1B Huey gun ship. We used to fly cover for the C130's that did the spraying. It never failed they would have a malfunction with the spray system and we would wind getting caught in the spray. My green ship would be red and i would be covered also. It was one heck of a job gitting that stuff off the ship. Talking 4-5 hours of washing. Sorry about your dad, have lost several crew members to that stuff.

Thank you for your service and sacrifice

[Cane Pole]

Dave you can see on my post me sitting in the door of my UH-1B Huey gun ship. We used to fly cover for the C130's that did the spraying. It never failed they would have a malfunction with the spray system and we would wind getting caught in the spray. My green ship would be red and i would be covered also. It was one heck of a job gitting that stuff off the ship. Talking 4-5 hours of washing. Sorry about your dad, have lost several crew members to that stuff.

I like that picture.


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[BJH]

Tom that gun i am sitting by is a minigun 7.62. . They had them mounted on pylons but they had a system running them and they only fired 2000 or 4000 depending on switch position. "Little Leroy" (guns name) he was wired straight to a 28 volt system and would eat 6000 p/mjn. He belched a flame about 8 ft. into a 95 mph wind when we were making a pass, shooting into a landing zone.