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Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine, Fire Crash Rescue A site put up by former Cherry Point Crew Dog Robert Cole-
Bill Hogston's Cherry Point CrashCrew HomepageThis is a very good website. It is well worth your time to check it out. And it has a kick butt address database for contacting previous crew dogs. So lets help him fill it up.
www.usmilnet.com A people finder location
Expeditionary Airfields Homepage
Help get
"
Chesty Puller
" stamp issued
Reed's Viet
Nam Page
Ralph Reed
Houston, Texas
USAF/ ARRS/ Airborne Firefighter/ Crash Rescue
HH-43B
Det. 1, 38 ARRS Phan Rang AB, RVN Jan 70 to Jan 71
Det. 8, 43 ARRS Takhli RTAFB, Thai 72
This is a awesome site, done by a USAF FireFighter attached to a
Search and Rescue Unit. The website has several great links and
the information of Airborne Firefighting in Vietnam is something
that no CrashCrewMan would want to miss- I give it a 5 star
award- Ike
The Unofficial US Air Force HH-43 "PEDRO" Crash Rescue - Air Rescue Home Page
International Aviation Fire Protection Association (IAFPA)
http://pages.prodigy.net/the_fanchman/Federal Firefighter Pay website
During
Team Spirit 81 Yeachon Korea
Hello, If you all any more pictures you want on the website, please send them to me.
Thank you
Ike
About the Author! The author is a career Fire Captain/Paramedic with the Rockingham County (VA) Department of Fire and Rescue. I am now the Station Captain for the career staff at the Grottoes Fire Department in Rockingham County. This encompasses, running the station on a daily basis, Monday through Friday. I also respond to Fire and Rescue Emergencies in this billet. I am a member of the local and state regional hazmat teams. I also am a State of VA Adjunct fire instructor, enough said about that, now for the real information.
MARINE CORPS duty! I enlisted at age 17 before my senior year in high school. I left for boot camp (Parris Island-isn't that where all the real marines come from)( ;) ) 7 days after graduation from high school, June 1979. I was assigned to platoon 2043 and graduated boot camp on Sept 7 1979. From there it was on to NAS Millington TN, where I was scheduled to be trained for Air Traffic Control (good thing for pilots the class had a 8 month backlog). I was then send to AV-MAC-Q school, something to do with repairing the air traffic control equipment. With a little information (from sources who shall remain nameless) I found out how to get into the Crash Fire Rescue school on base. Best decision I ever made in the Marines. I started the class in Nov. 79 and we completed the class in Dec. 79. From there it was on to MCAS Cherry Point Dec 79 to Sept 80, then to MCAS Iwakuni (with a deployment to Team Spirit 81 in Yeachon Korea thrown in) Sept 80 to Sept 81, then to MCAS (H) New River N.C. to complete my tour of duty. I got out of the Corps on 18 June 1983.
I can honestly say that what I learned in the Marine Corps, both discipline and training wise has greatly aided me in all my endeavor's and has helped me tolerate the petty BS in my current job. So to all Marine's that read this SEMPER FI !
I also pulled 3 1/2 years in the Virginia Air National Guard
Fire Department at Byrd Airport at Richmond VA from 1988 to May
1991 and was sent to England Air Force Base (home of the shark
mouthed A-10's} in Alexandria Louisiana during Desert Storm
We do more with less, So politician's can do less with more --Isaac R. Diehl 2/96
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