Tuesday, March 16, 2010
McKenzie's Raiders
Blue Ghost Scout Platoon, 1967-68. Photos by Victor Cook. Vic was an original Blue Ghost and made these photos while serving as a scout crew chief/door gunner. He had the film developed and sent to his home in Kansas where the slides lay in repose for 39 years. In 2007, his sister found the photos and sent them to him. He had the slides scanned and put on a disc at Walmart, then forwarded them to us for publishing online.This collection was originally on the MSN site and is now in the photo albums.
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These pictures are the way it was, lots of memories, you had to be there. These Choppers took us, the Blue Ghost Blues, to our LZ's, and without fail, brought us back. God Bless all of the people who read this. As I have been blessed. PACMAN.
ReplyDeleteWe were so lucky to have been deployed as a unit. I have often thought what that did for us in building bonds. Most of the WO pilots had been together for almost 18 months before we set foot in Qui Nhon and the enlisted and RLO's had been a unit for at least a period of months. The Army learned that you don't fight for your country or your flag - you fight for the guy next to you and they abandoned individual rotations in the '80's. But we knew it in '67 and proved it repeatedly.
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