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Journal of the 19= 9^th Recon Airplane Company RVN 1967-70 Vol.&nb= sp; 4, Issue 3 Mar 07

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Swamp Fox Coordin= ator 2004-6 Bob Woolley - Fox 26 &n= bsp; bjdubu@ao= l.com

Reunion Coordinator C&C &nb= sp; &nb= sp; Don Nicholson - Fox ?? &n= bsp; lontri= ps0@aol.com

Unit Historian = &nb= sp; Charley Baker - Fox 46 cbkbwdb@starpower.net=

Patch and Shirt Project &n= bsp; Gary Simon - Fox 16 GaryLBB@aol.com

Web Master / Commo Chief = ; Ray "Doc" Jennings - Fox 032A r.jenning= s@KTIS.net

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WEB SITE www .SwampFox199thRAC.co= m

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Have we had enough winter yet?<= /o:p>

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Udvar-Hazy - 2

Cessna O-1A (L-19) Bird Dog<= o:p>

Wingspan<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>	10.97 m (36 ft.)=
Length	7.86 m (25 ft. 9= 1/2 in.)
Height	2.22 m (7 ft. 3 = 1/2 in.)
Weight	726.3 kg (1,614 = lb) empty

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I was just looking at the latest FOX FAX article about the O-1 at Udvar-Hazy. Just a note of interest...or not...The pa= int scheme on that a/c was take from photos of my bird "Mobile Miss" when I was Aloft 46 with the 74th RAC at Ph= u Loi, during my second tour. I was a Swamp Fox o= n my first tour.

I was shot down in "Mobile Miss" in Nov. '71. I was shot down again= the next morning in a different plane. I was able to nurse "Mobile Miss&qu= ot; back across the border from Cambodia and land at Fire Base Hung Dao, without further damage. The aircraft was la= ter hastily repaired on-site and flown back to Phu = Loi for more extensive work.

The photos for the paint scheme were provided by a Maintenance Warrant, from the 74th, whose name I should remember but don't. Years later, he was involved = in the restoration which was done at either Ft. Eustis or Ft. Belvoir.

I had no idea about any of this until a friend told me he had seen the aircra= ft. I thought he was pulling my leg, but sure enough, there's the photo of "Mobile Miss" in 74th livery on the Smithsonian website.

I painted the name on the original myself. I laid the outline of the fat bubble-like letters with grease pencil and painted them in bright yellow. <= o:p>

The cowl of the original, complete with art work and a 14.5MM exit flower, were hanging in the 74th hootch bar when I left in F= eb. '72. Sure wish I had it now.

BTW: My wife-to-be was a native of Mobile, AL and worked with Page Aircraft Maintenance at Ft. Rucker, where we met. Hence the name. =

I'm in Mosul, Iraq now, flying 337's (0-2's= ) on ISR missions as a contractor.

Feel free to share this, if you think anyone would be interested, and by all mea= ns pass along my greetings to my ol' Swamp Fox pal= s.

All the best,

Roger Bowers

Fox 25/36

Aloft 46

ENTERPRISE, ALABAMA

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This from the 183^rd RAC news letter=

Courtesy of John Fischer [John_Fischer@worldnet.att.net]

While putting this newsletter together, news came that our old friends from Enterprise had suf= fered an unimaginable loss. While natural disasters often take over our news, = it is not often when you can have a personal attachment to the people involved= and also to the town. Most of us knew Enterprise because of our days at Fort Rucker, Enterprise was the home to our first reunion in October of 2002. While we have h= ad two more wonderful reunions since, we have never gotten as close to the peo= ple of the town as we did in Enter= prise. The city gave us the use of their school buses for transportation, the bus drivers volunteered to drive for free, the women of Enterprise opened their= homes for a 183^rd wives tour, the airport hosted our friends from the IBDA, the Chamber of Commerce opened doors for us that we could not open ourselves, the guy who owned the local Piggly W= iggly prepared a “Pig Pull” and serenaded us with his country music a= nd many other things too numerous to recount. To summarize all of this, = the folks of Enterprise gave us the welcome ho= me that we never got returning from Vietnam.

Now our friends have suffered a disaster. Babs Johnston contacted me and wanted to do something for the people in Enterprise to show= our appreciation for all that they had done for us and to say that we share the= ir pain. I talked today with Kathleen Sauer, who at the time was the President of the Enterprise Chamber of Commerce and the person most respons= ible for our first reunion. She told me that one of the boys killed at the high school was the son of a soldier who had recently deployed to Iraq. The high school, as you have seen on television has been almost completely destroyed. Two hundred and thirty six homes have been declared total losses. The JROTC at the high school lost all of its equipment, that the Y nearby had been damaged and that the City and the Chamber were suggesting t= hat contributions go to the Enterprise Alabama Tornado Fund.<= /p>

If you would like to see more about the destruction, the recovery efforts and = the Enterprise Alabama Tornado Fund, go to www.cityofenterprise.net or www.enterprisealabama.com.

Babs Johnston has agreed to chair a quick campaign to solicit contributions and = make a donation to the people of En= terprise on behalf of the men and wives of the 183^rd Aviation Company.&nb= sp; Please send your checks made out to the Enterprise Alabama Tornado Fund to = Babs Johnston, 1321 Beaver Dam Road, Madison, <= st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Georgia 30650. Babs can be reached at hirambabs@earthlink.net or (706)342-9136.

If onl= y we had this then -

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The APKWS II is a 2.75-inch laser-guided rocket that will provide crews of the = U.S. Army Apache and Marine Corps Cobra attack helicopters and other platforms w= ith precision-strike capability against targets that do not require a 7-inch HELLFIRE missile -- an option not presently available. This low-cost alternative will destroy non-armored targets that are close to civilian ass= ets and/or friendly forces.

The test was conducte= d on the C-72 test range at Eglin AFB, FL. The established objectives for the GTV flight were to demonstrate safe launch and separation characteristics, stab= le flight and performance of the seeker de- roll bearing assembly and the semi-active laser guidance.

"The rocket hit = the target board 2.8 kilometers downrange and the impact was less than half a m= eter from the laser spot designation," said Steve Barn= oske, director - Tactical Missiles at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "According to the flight telemetry and range tracking data, we met all= the objectives. This means that 'HELLFIRE(R) Junior' is on track to provide precision strike in a low-cost, smaller, yet lethal package."

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Coming Events

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199^th RAC Swamp Fox Reunion 2= 007

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No pla= ns yet. Open to suggestions.

Contac= t Don Nicholson or send to me and I will forward.

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221^st RAC Shot Gun Reunion=

Goo= d News . . .

&nb= sp; Our friends with which we shared the Delta under the 307^th Phantom Battalion are getting organized. Al Poindexter has agreed to be SPOC ( Starting Point Of Contact ). Many of us have duel citizenship with the 221^st. If you served with Shot Gun e-mail A= l as they are building their e-mail list. Please pass the word to those you know= who served with Shot Gun.

Din= g Hoa . . . all the best to Shot Gun.=

Fro= m the Shot Gun web site: www.221st.org/reunions.htm

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219^th RAC HeadHunters Reunion Sept. 2007 Atlanta Georgia=

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9/17/2005 HEADHUNTERS decide to hold their NEXT REUNION scheduled for <= b>SEPTEMBER 2007 in ATLANTA, GEORGIA. The hosts will b= e Steve Butler (RVN 1/68-1/69 Pleiku) and Tom Mo= rris (RVN 7/65-7/66 Nha Trang= , Tuy Hoa, Phan Thiet & NonCo).= The host location will be Peachtree City South of Atlanta. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

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www.219h= eadhunters.com/Reunions.htm

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WEB SITES of INTEREST

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Lockheed Martin Pho= to Gallery

www.lockheedmart= in.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=3Dfec&ci=3D16800&rsbci=3D16800&fti= =3D0&ti=3D0&sc=3D400

Super = Birddog?

Lots of Birddog pics here http://www.talkin= gproud.us/HistoryBirddog12.html

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EAA calendar

http://www.eaa.org/= events

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IBDA

From t= he Bark

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MONTHLY SAFETY MINDER...................................

Sunday afternoon flight to get fuel and proficiency training. After several touch and goes the airplane turned down wind at a tower airport. The pilot saw several turkey buzzards (black bird, length 32 inches; extent of wings 6'4"; approximate weight 6.5 pounds)= in the area and two that he saw went below the right wing. Suddenly he fe= lt a thump so hard on the left wing that he thought he had a midair. He couldn't see the damage because of the rockets and = he couldn't tell the extent of the damage until he was safely on the ground (s= ee above attachments wing damage 001, wing damage 002). It took full ail= eron to keep the wings level and he had a 12 knot cross wind. He landed without further damage. Most birds will go down when approached. The extent of the damage which is all skin from the landing light outboard = is beyond repair and the front spar is bent beyond repair.

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