Air: Pa. NG has retired its last Hueys

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Mad-Modeller - 23 Apr 2009 07:36 GMT

The last two were up at Ft. Indiantown Gap and were officially retired
Tuesday. Several of the older soldiers got choked up about them leaving.
According to the TV reporter, they were headed south to be passed on to
some foreign owners.
I'll miss seeing them pass overhead as well as no longer hearing them. One
couldn't mistake them for anything else.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Musicman59 - 24 Apr 2009 15:35 GMT

> The last two were up at Ft. Indiantown Gap and were officially retired
> Tuesday. Several of the older soldiers got choked up about them leaving.
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> Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Yeah, you always know when a Huey is near. When they come over my
house, I always try and guess their direction, and I never get it
right. What a sound it makes.......

Craig

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Doug Wagner - 24 Apr 2009 17:23 GMT

>Yeah, you always know when a Huey is near. When they come over my
>house, I always try and guess their direction, and I never get it
>right. What a sound it makes.......

>Craig

Back in '74 I was working for a former Huey evac pilot, building a house.
We were standing on the 1st floor decking when a couple of his buddies from
the Guard tried to sneak up on us.
They came in low, so we didn't get a lot of notice...suddenly they were
hovering overhead, a hundered feet up.
Sawdust and anything not tied down was flying around. It sounded like the
end of the world!
I remember thinking, it must have been terrifying to be a Viet Cong caught
in the open like that.

Doug

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mholt@ohiohills.com - 25 Apr 2009 14:38 GMT

> The last two were up at Ft. Indiantown Gap and were officially retired
> Tuesday. Several of the older soldiers got choked up about them leaving.
> According to the TV reporter, they were headed south to be passed on to
> some foreign owners.

It's a shame some could not be scattered in museums around
Pennsylvania. We will regret giving all this stuff.

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Kurt Laughlin - 25 Apr 2009 15:51 GMT

There are plenty around at American Legions and VFWs, both UH-1s and AH-1s.

KL

>> The last two were up at Ft. Indiantown Gap and were officially retired
>> Tuesday. Several of the older soldiers got choked up about them leaving.
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> It's a shame some could not be scattered in museums around
> Pennsylvania. We will regret giving all this stuff.

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willshak - 25 Apr 2009 16:49 GMT

on 4/25/2009 9:38 AM (ET) mholt@ohiohills.com wrote the following:

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>> The last two were up at Ft. Indiantown Gap and were officially retired
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A lot of them will go to various Police Departments around the country.
That's how many PDs get their helos, vehicles, and boats, among other
surplussed military equipment..

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