GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS · What It Was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam by Garrison, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Introduction Part One: How Did All This Happen

01. The Wake Up Call 02. I Was Just A College Student 03. Basic Training 04. Flight School Preflight 05. Primary Flight School 06. The Solo 07. The Seniors and Super Seniors 08. The Out of Uniform Bust 09. The Piss Poor Excuse for a Display 10. Advanced Primary Flight Training at Fort Wolters 11. Instrument Flight Training at Rucker 12. A Few Days Leave

Part Two: Hello, Vietnam

13. A Long Flight Over 14. Two Nights Out in Tokyo 15. How Far North Will The Bastards Send Me 16. Hello Camp Holloway

Part Three: Flying The Slicks

17. The Checkride and an Orientation to Combat Flying 18. Back to the Wakeup Call 19. Learning to Fly in the Mountains 20. Life in the Hooch 21. A Hot Insertion 22. Pondering It All 23. The Perimeter 24. The Night Duty Officer 25. A Jolt of Reality 26. Finishing Up as an Alligator

Part Four: The Gunships

27. A Welcome Invitation 28. The Crocodile Initiation 29. Learning to Fly the Guns 30. Getting to Know Croc 4—Waldo 31. The Lima Charlie Missions 32. Crashing a Party of Buffaloes 33. The Mamasans and Papasans 34. Poker nights at the Croc Hooch 35. The Cuisine at the Croc Hooch 36. Getting Acquainted With an Overloaded Charlie Model 37. Taking a Shower in Agent Orange 38. The New Year’s Eve Invasion of An Khe 39. The Daily Blur of the War 40. The Mission Statement 41. Making Aircraft Commander 42. First Mission as an Aircraft Commander 43. An Unexpected Night in Pleiku 44. The Cheo Reo River Runs 45. Somebody Messed With Waldo 46. More Agent Orange Baths 47. Flying Convoy Cover 48. Hot Refueling at Dak To 49. It’s A Shame About The Chinook 50. Thornton’s Thunder 51. Manual Pest Control 52. An Awesome Fireworks Display 53. The Night Flare Mission 54. The Fortunate Few 55. Robbie and Jon-Jon 56. The Drunken Food Theft 57. The Bears Revisited 58. Rumors of War? 59. A Flying Ball of Fire 60. The Friendly fire Incident 61. AAA’s and Tanks 62. A Bunch of Super Pissed Off Bees

Part Five: Wrapping It All Up

63. The R and R 64. In the Soup at Night Over the Mountains 65. Another Windy City 66. The Banana Boat Incident 67. The Beginning of the End 68. The Flight Home

Epilogue About the Author