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re: LONG read - USMC pilot who flew the Howard Johnson's NOLA mission dies
Posted on 2/18/20 at 8:52 pm to skeeter531
Posted on 2/18/20 at 8:52 pm to skeeter531
If you're interested in the entire ordeal with Mark Essex on the HJ, read the book "A Terrible Thunder".
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Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:04 pm to SM6
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He was a CH-46 pilot,
The 'Phrog' was a pretty good helicopter. Hated it see it retired, but it was time to park them. Your Dad probably had some really good times flying it.
HC-6 Norfolk.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 9:06 pm to jbgleason
My buddy was the crew chief on that helicopter. They were bad dudes- he was just back from Vietnam. No problem- they went to solve a problem.
He and I worked together all over the world- he told me sometimes he would just lay out in the machines we were working on smoking a joint. Like it was no big deal.
He and I worked together all over the world- he told me sometimes he would just lay out in the machines we were working on smoking a joint. Like it was no big deal.
Posted on 2/18/20 at 10:17 pm to jbgleason
Posted on 2/18/20 at 10:28 pm to SM6
I flew 53Es. Although I chopped over to a Frog squadron for a WestPac.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 12:51 am to SoFla Tideroller
Ever make it to Subic 87-89? Might have saved your drunk arse from getting your pockets picked crossing the bridge over shite River coming back to the base after a night in Olongapo! T’s Tavern ring a bell? Florida Club? I stood watch at Main Gate many a nite!
Posted on 2/19/20 at 9:54 am to 4Ghost
I spent a few evenings on Magsaysay Street in the fall and winter of '90/91 enjoying some cold San Miguel's. 
Posted on 2/19/20 at 10:47 am to Gopher Rick
quote:Kid on my baseball team that year one of the jumpers was his aunt.
Great story. Essex was also suspected of starting the tragic Rault Center fire 5 weeks earlier.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:42 pm to SoFla Tideroller
I was at Pendleton then, humping them mudderphuckin hills! Semper Fi! 
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