Frank says he was assigned to the 6994th Security Squadron at Tan Son Nhut in 1970-72 as a SRO 29251 with TDY's to NKP Phu Cat and Pleiku.

I have just recently found this site and many thanks for putting this together. Because of this site, I have found two of my friends who I served with and extended with in SEA. We flew together on 3 & 5 configuration birds. We have been talking frequently and I have shared this site with them. I hope to see them at your scheduled reunion which I have yet to review. I also have many pictures of my tour including in-flight photos however, I have not yet learned how to archive them on my home computer. Any help in this arena would be greatly appreciated. I would be proud to share them with your site. Please advise. God bless & I hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, Frank F. "ski"

Email Address: frankfvoc(at)hotmail.com

Robert left the following in the guestbook. Says he was a Pilot assigned to the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut from September 1969 to September 1970. Says he would like to hear from others that he served with from that time period.

The information here was received from a third party. Joe was the Commander of the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut from September, 1967 until sometime in 1968.

Ray writes, I just found our about your site from a column in the newspaper here in Fort Walton Beach. I was the squadron maintenance officer for the 362 TEWS at DaNang from April 71 to April 72. I have a good collection of photos and other stuff I would like to share with you. I will attach some stuff I scanned last night. I also have a bunch of 35 mm slides which I hope to scan and can send along. Include in those are several of the EC we painted with the shark's mouth that got us into trouble with the base commander at NKP. Sgt Pare mentioned it in his "memories" write-up. I'll send you some info on that one when I get a chance. The pictures of Gentle Ben are of LC Benjamin Losiewicz who was the commander at the time. He is the second from the right. His exec, third from the right, is LC Titus Hall.

Ray's Email Address: raysmail(at)cox.net

Phil says, Just discovered this site via VVA Veteran, it's great. I haven't had a chance to review it all yet. Have DFC was grounded at Nha Trang and went to Ramusan Station (outside of Udorn), any info on that site?

Mark was assigned to the 361st Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron as a Crew Chief at Nha Trang in 1967/68.

Ed say's I served with some great people in DaNang, for instance the "Aerospace Space Leader" Capt. Owen Costello, Pete Peterson, etc and most the the backenders on Baron 52 before they went to Thailand. I haven't read the book yet but I hope it does justice to them. I tried in 73 to get the command to recognize these men with some naming of buildings , etc but all they did then was to put up a plaque. The command finally did start some naming later on tho.

Alphonso left this in the guestbook. I was assigned to the 360th TEWS from June 1970 to June 1971 as an Aircraft Mechanic at Ton Son Nhut.

I was to young to hang out with the E-5's, to much rank to hang out with my age group. Tell Louie Gentile I remember him. He was drunk on day, grabbed me by the collar, (he didn't like my beads). Chief Kelly saveed his life and career. Ha Ha. I had lots of fun though, worked hard, played hard.

Ronald says, I was originally assigned to the 460AEMS in Saigon and then reassigned to the 360th in August 1967. My primary job was the calibration and repair on the compass and Navigation systems. While assigned to the 360th I participated in to TDY'S, one to Plieku and one to Udorn Thailand. Upon returning to Saigon I was discharged in September 1969. From this point on I transferred services and completed my tours of duty. I was officially discharged from the Air Force in September 1969. I won't be able to attend all three days during the may get-to-gather but if you could send me a copy of the events to be held and times I will do my best to attend some of them. My U.S.A.F. rank at the time of my discharge was SGT. Thank You Ronald G. Schultz

Jim says he worked in security with Detachment 2, 6994th Security Squadron at Danang from September 1971 to September 1972.

Email Address: [email protected]

James M. Stanfield Captain, USAF (ret.) Folsom, CA

Richard says he was assigned to Detachment 2 and 3, 6994th Security Squadron at Pleiku and NKP as a Radio Operator. He originally joined the unit at Pleiku in March 1970 and served there until June of that year. Was transferred to NKP when Det 2 moved to Danang. Served at NKP until DEROS/Separation in September 1971.

James says, I was twenty years old when I arrived in Vietnam fresh from FTD school on C123,s.Then I met my first EC47 and fell in love with the greatest airplane ever built.just one more time I would love to be able to jump up on the wing of a Goon and pump 115/45 into her,and send her on her way.TEWS forever.

Pete say's he was assigned to the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Pleiku from November 1978 to November 1968 as an Aircraft Mechanic.

When through the TET offensive where our barracks got hit with a recolless rifle round. Have lots of pictures, even an aerial view of Pleiku AB. Will bring to 2002 reunion.

Timothy says he was a member of the 361st Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Phu Cat from October 1969 to November 1970. Hope to have more on Tim soon.

In a letter ordering a copy of the book, The EC-47 Experience, Gene provided the following information. Hope for more later.

I was an EC-47 Pilot in the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron from March 1966 to April 1967.

Douglas left this in the guestbook. Says he was assigned to the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Pleiku from November 1967 to November 1968 and was the Crew Chief of "Gypsy Rose", tail number 058.

Great Site, this is the first time on the site and I will definately be back.

I just found your site yesterday, and all day today was fascinated by the stories that I read, and I think I will contribute to this site. Of course many wonderful memories were brought back of this wonderful aircraft (the EC-47) and the pilots, the flight mechanics. I was stationed at 6994th SS at Tan Son Nhut from Sep 67 to July 68. I was only there for 9 months, because the Air Force sent me over for my last nine months of my enlistment. I did manage to join The Century Club, volunteering for missions to get my 100th flight as an Airborne Radio Operator, AFSC 29251.

I do have some stories to share (later) and interested in finding some friends who were stationed with me in Saigon...I will be looking at old photo albums this weekend and other AF paperwork. This is just unbelievable all the information this site contains, and helps me identify with all these people and the EC47 experience. I will definitely be ordering the book and extra copies for my sons to keep.

Information below added on February 16th, 2002

I am writing you to give you a little information about my tour at Tan Son Nhut as a member of the 6994th SS.I was a 29251 "Radio Operator" and was there from Sept 67 to Jul 68. The Air Force sent me to Vietnam during the last 9 months of my Air Force enlistment. I did have to volunteer for extra missions to get my 100th Mission...and become a member of the Century Club.

Few notable things I remember about tour in Vietnam. On one of my first flights the Instructor Radio Operator (IRO) forgot to flip a switch on the X position to get his equipment to work.. being new and on the Y position, I figured he knew about flipping the switch...so we returned to Tan Son Nhut...only to have the mechanic on the ground flip the switch...so back up we went to complete the mission....a little red faced. I later found out the IRO had been out on the town the night before.

On his first flight Sgt. Richard Cecilia (CC) had the good fortune of having an engine go out. Immediately the pilot told the crew to put on their parachutes in case they had to jump. Fortunately the pilot returned the EC-47 to Tan Son Nhut without incident.

I was afraid of heights, and that wonderful parachute training of jumping off a table to practice our Parachute Landing Falls (PLF) did nothing to rid me of that fear. The EC-47's out of TSN only had straps across the rear cargo door. Every flight I would go to that rear door and try to convince myself that someday I might have to jump. Fortunately we never did...I think the flight mech would have had to push me out!!

Richard Cecilia also happened to be on a flight where the tail wheel was not locked during landing. The plane ended up alongside the runway in a field...and no injuries. Just some pride hurt, and of course the tower had to call to find out what happened.

I do remember one time where the co-pilot saved us all. We had just been given clearance to the runway for immediate take off. Just as the pilot was about to get on the runway...the copilot screams HOLD HOLD!!! Immediately the tower called us charlie 47 HOLD HOLD!! The pilot answered...We're holding!! Just then a 727 landed on the runway we had just been given clearance to. First time I heard an Air Traffic Controller jump all over a pilot. When asked what his instructions were the pilot of the 727 repeated "Circle the field"...and of course the Air Traffic Controller asked "what the hell are you doing on the ground?"

Two pilots names I do remember: Col. Quintana...from South or Central America...heard him say one day he was going to return to South America to fly planes over there. I once was Standby Radio Operator, and awakened by duty personnel at 0500, since the regular radio operator had been out the night before, and not able to make the flight. I was rushed out to the awaiting EC-47, practically thrown into the plane, and Col Quintana radioed back "Is that Radio Operator on board yet? As soon as the flight mech said "yes", we did an immediate take-off.

Col Evans always made the smoothest landings...was like landing on glass when he was at the controls...we could just sit back and relax...as we prepared for this "smooth" landing. One flight he almost bounced that plane off the runway..and we were all wondering what happened...was this the same pilot that always made the smooth landings?

These are some of my memories of my tour at Tan Son Nhut AB, 6994th Security Squadron, A1C (later Sgt) Frank Borsellino, Radio Operator.

Jim says, I was a member of Det. 2 6994th Security Squadron at Pleiku and Danang. I have so many memories of my time in Vietnam. I just can't believe that so much information is available on the computer about crewmembers.

Tom sent a short message saying he was assigned to the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron as a Mechanic from November 1968 to November 1969.

Edwin says, I was a Msgt. in aircraft maintenance at Pleiku and DaNang, March 1970 to March 1971. When 133 got hit at Pleiku I was a flight chief and I was making my rounds to see what maintenance problems we had on the mission returning aircraft. I had just left 133 and walked up the ramp, helped a young crew chief run engines to check out a engine problem, was standing in front of the aircraft we had just run, I was looking west ( it seemed to me ) And saw the two rockets hit. There is much more to this story, I'll try to get off my duff and write you the whole story.
Captain Stan Schloesser was our maintenance officer.

Ed's Email Address: [email protected]

Postal Address: 1808 Dogwood Lane, Linton, IN.

Stanley say, he was a Navigator with the 360th Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Tan Son Nhut from Janurary 67 to Janurary 68. I ferried aircraft from Nashua NH in January 1967. Crew of Cervantes, Howard, McNally, States and Doss. Had the unenviable record of the longest ferry flight-47 days. There are a lot of good stories associated with the ferry flight as well as the tour itself. Will try to relate a few later.

Lewis says, I was assigned to Detachment 3, 6994th Security Squadron from September 1970 to September 1971 as the first permanent Operations Officer at Det 3. Served with Capt Jim Clapper (first permanent commander). Upon his rotation, I assumed command for my remaining three months. It was the best tour of my entire Air Force career both active duty and reserve. It really provided job satisfaction, especially from the "Green Door" perspective.

Jim says he was a Pilot with the 361st Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Nha Trang from March 1968 to March 1969.

Ken says he was a Pilot with the 362nd Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron at Pleiku from February 1968 to February 1969.

Continues, I have many fond memories of the men and the EC-47's we flew. How can one ever forget the noise, water leaks in heavy rain, and everything else that comes with those "Good Old Birds".

Rolly writes, I was stationed at Phu Cat Air Base from 28 June of 1970 to 21 June of 1971. I believe I had 1044 hours on missions or "combat" and 39 hours or 41 hours flying maintenance hops and so forth.

I have about 7 Super 8 movie reels about 6 inches in diameter and much of the footage was shot out one of the pilot seats showing Laos, Cambodia, and I and II Corps scenery and several events such as SAR rescues, and the shock wave off a Daisy Cutter at 8,000' MSL. Need to get them to someone that wants that visual history I guess.

I have mailed you a check for the book advertised and hope you can continue to maintain the web site. I have also mailed you three or four pages of name, rank and home addresses of the staff at the 361st of 70 to 71'.

We received the Presidential Unit Citation for staying on top of General Giap as he went down the Ho Che Min Trail and met with Pol Pot in Cambodia. Yes, we did fly our asses off and I guess we had time waivers???? I think I may have exceeded 110 hours one month during this deal. And I loved to fly so no gripes from me. The camaraderie at Phu Cat in the Gooney bird squadron was unbelievably high as compared to some other units. We had fine, fine and unselfish men of great quiet courage and high skills.

I was an instructor Pilot, T-37 UPT, at Vance AFB in Enid, OK on return to The World and left the Air Force (my biggest mistake) in late 1973. A regular officer, 1st Lt.

I live in Grand Prairie Texas and own Ameritek Machinery Company in Arlington Texas.

Very truly yours,

Rolly D. Grounds, Capt. USAF

Rolly's Email Address: rollydgrounds(at)sbcglobal.net

Received from, John P. Murphy, Scituate, MA.

John left this in the Guestbook.

John says he was assigned to the 6994th Security Squadron in 1968-1969 at Pleiku as a Voice Intercept Operator.

I love this website. It brings back many memories - some good, some bad. I was originally assigned to TSN but quickly reassigned to Det 2 at Pleiku. My recall of names is poor but of events very clear. My "second career" at Pleiku was as a bartender at the Airmen's Club. Remember those 10 cent beers (and 5 cents during happy hour)?
After returning to the States, several of us were sent TDY from Offutt AFB to Cam Ranh Bay to resume our voice intercept duties aboard C-130's. Any of that group out there?