[Vhfcn-l] Huey down!

[Richard Lewis]

You are 100% correct that all were family and it was still that way when I left. And no question of every one being a Hooker Would not have had a flyable aircraft long without the long hours and hard work of maintenance guys and no matter how early I needed to take off the cooks and crew at the mess hall always had a good breakfast ready and when I came back in a hot supper was waiting,  All members of 228th did their best is how I remember it.  You hear of race problems or drug problems but I never heard a whisper of these kind of problems in the 228th.  I will admit if I knew I was not flying the next day I probably on occasion drank more than I should have but never enough to be a problem if I was needed.   How is your first wife doing these days ?  Still eating your cooking ? Richard lewisMsg, USA {ret} 

    On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 8:19 PM, Arnold B Christensen <abc15 at mindspring.com> wrote:
 

 Thanks Richard and for the rest of the  B Co Boat 
People that are not on this push and several 
others who did not walk back home and especially 
Maj Johnson who led us to make the company area 
as comfortable as we could.  We will never know 
what other ideas he had in that Engineer mind of 
his. We were truly a family.  Many on return 
stateside went on to teach our replacements 
replacements how to be a Hooker.  Thanks buddy 
for your thanks to a company full of original 
Hookers.  It did not take a CE or FE to be called 
a Hooker.  Never forget the many maintenance guyz 
who where there when the ships came home.
Chris the Bigfoot.
  At 16:39 9/12/2017, Richard Lewis wrote:
>When i went over in 1966 I took one look around 
>and realized I had been very lucky to go to the 
>228th. Â Outstanding outfit. Â The so called 
>"Boat People" had worked their asses of to leave 
>for us that came later a great place to live and 
>work. Â Plus the few original crew members did a 
>great job of making sure we had a firm grip on 
>our jobs.  Thanks very much guys. Richard 
>lewisMsg, USA {ret}    On Monday, September 11, 
>2017 12:42 PM, Loren McAnally 
><blue36 at bellsouth.net> wrote: You guys did a 
>great job for those of us that followed. Thanks 
>Loren -----Original Message----- From: Arnold B 
>Christensen [mailto:abc15 at mindspring.com] Sent: 
>Monday, September 11, 2017 10:21 AM To: Loren 
>McAnally <blue36 at bellsouth.net> Cc: 'VHFCN1 
>Pilots and Crew' <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> Subject: 
>Re: [Vhfcn-l] Huey down! Yeah...respect...and 
>back in the day we did not wear monkey straps 
>either! We stored them forward of the right fuel 
>cell in the compartment over the forward wheel. 
>Was a good spot to keep a couple of cases of 
>beer too which we did one time.  Original 
>Hookers!  Guyz would ask us if we could do this 
>or that and if it was something new the answer 
>was always...Don't know but we can try!  We 
>didn't have much in "Lessons learned" back 
>then.  Hell, the aircraft itself was not 
>totally proven when we landed in Sept 65.  So 
>we sort of made up our own lesson plans and word 
>got around about "how do you do this?" And...I 
>was not alone!  3 companies of Hookers learning 
>from each other. Great outfit the 228th Chinook 
>Battalion was.  First and only one of its kind 
>from what I know. Da Foot At 21:52 9/10/2017, 
>Loren McAnally wrote: >A little respect guys! We 
>are Hookers (capital H) and we flew 
>Hooks. >Don't give Da Foot a hard time, he spent 
>a lot of time slipping around >in the hydraulic 
>oil on the ramp. > >Loren >Big Windy/ Saber Blue 
>36 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: 
>Vhfcn-l 
>[mailto:vhfcn-l-bounces+blue36=bellsouth.net at vhfcn.org]  
> >On Behalf Of jomclaughlin at comcast.net >Sent: 
>Sunday, September 10, 2017 8:06 PM >To: Loren 
>McAnally <blue36 at bellsouth.net> >Cc: VHFCN1 
>Pilots and Crew <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> >Subject: 
>Re: [Vhfcn-l] Huey down! > >If it had been a 
>hook it would already been back up on the 
>pole. > >-----Original Message----- >From: 
>Patrick Pavey 
>[mailto:patrickpavey at comcast.net] >Sent: Sunday, 
>September 10, 2017 5:07 PM >To: 
>jomclaughlin at comcast.net >Cc: 'VHFCN1 Pilots and 
>Crew' <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> >Subject: RE: 
>[Vhfcn-l] Huey down! > >Yeah but he is a hook 
>guy. > >-----Original Message----- >From: 
>Vhfcn-l >[mailto:vhfcn-l-bounces+patrickpavey=com 
>cast.net at vhfcn.org] On Behalf >Of 
>jomclaughlin at comcast.net >Sent: Sunday, 
>September 10, 2017 10:31 AM >To: 
>Patrickpavey at comcast.net >Cc: VHFCN1 Pilots and 
>Crew <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> >Subject: Re: [Vhfcn-l] 
>Huey down! > >There you go, we send over our 
>most experienced Helicopter Tech and he >leaves 
>the thing in pieces on the 
>ground. > >Jim > >-----Original 
>Message----- >From: 
>Vhfcn-l >[mailto:vhfcn-l-bounces+jomclaughlin=com 
>cast.net at vhfcn.org] On Behalf >Of Arnold B 
>Christensen >Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2017 
>7:57 PM >To: jomclaughlin at comcast.net >Cc: 
>VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew 
><vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> >Subject: [Vhfcn-l] Huey 
>down! > >Was over in the town of Rockport the 
>other day and wend down a road >over there and I 
>think it is the VFW and they used to have a Huey 
>on a stick. >Pretty good looking she was. Well 
>she had a hard landing on her right >side and 
>the whole tail boom was located about 100 feet 
>away lying up >against a home across the street. 
>Didn't have my phone with me to get a >pic. Sad 
>looking. >Da 
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