Wow! What a trip Ft. Worth was! A couple of weeks ago I posted pics of two Academy 1/35th UH-1C's, which I tried my best to convert to USMC UH-1E's. Well, I painstakenly hand carried these in boxes on the plane to the USMC Combat Helicopter Assoc. reunion Aug 10th. I placed them for auction and both netted $200.00 dollars each to be given to their Scholarship program. Met some really great heroes there. The assoc began in 1985 just as one former Marine helo pilot was watching a news story about the 10th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. He got to thinking and tracked down a couple of other Vietnam pilots and asked, "what have you been doing?" Well, a few of them got together that summer in Vegas, and it just grew from there. It evolved from pilots only, eventually to combat aircrewman as well. Until only this year, it was limited toVietnam Marine helo crews. In an effort to infuse new young blood into the organization, it is now open to any Marine helo pilot/aircrewman who flew in combat in any war/campaign/expedition. These guys are great and really appreciate the guys in Iraq and Afganistan right now. They are at popasmoke.org.
I had many people ask me to make them a model plaque, so I pretty much have my next two years booked up!
"You scratched my anchor!"