By Chuck Gross
Rattler One-Seven places you within the helicopter seat, to work out the battle in Vietnam in the course of the eyes of an green pilot as he transforms himself right into a professional wrestle veteran. whilst Chuck Gross left for Vietnam in 1970, he was once a nineteen-year-old military helicopter pilot clean out of flight university. He spent his whole Vietnam journey with the 71st attack Helicopter corporation flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. quickly after the conflict he wrote down his adventures, whereas his reminiscence was once nonetheless clean with the occasions. Rattler One-Seven (his name signal) is written as Gross skilled it, utilizing those notes besides letters written domestic to safely guard the attitude he had whereas in Vietnam. in the course of his journey Gross flew distinct Operations for the MACV-SOG, placing mystery groups into Laos. He notes that americans have been left in the back of alive in Laos, while reliable coverage at domestic said that U.S. forces have been by no means there. He additionally participated in Lam Son 719, a misbegotten try out via the ARVN to attack and lower the Ho Chi Minh path with U.S. military helicopter help. It was once the most important airmobile crusade of the warfare and marked the 1st time that the helicopter was once utilized in mid-intensity strive against, with disastrous effects. Pilots of their early twenties, with younger gunners and a Huey jam-packed with ARVN squaddies, took on skilled North Vietnamese antiaircraft artillery gunners, without significant intelligence briefings or a rational plan on how one can lower the path. multiple hundred helicopters have been misplaced and greater than 400 airplane sustained strive against harm. Gross himself used to be shot down and left within the box in the course of one attack. Rattler One-Seven will attract these drawn to the Vietnam conflict and to all militia, specifically aviators, who've served for his or her kingdom.
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He said, “Mr. ” Then he turned and stumbled away. ” I figured I had earned his respect and left it at that. The next morning, I ran into one of the pilots in our unit that I had been stationed with during basic training. His name was Steve Israel. While I had been fortunate enough to get stateside duty upon completion of flight school, Israel had received orders directly to Nam. He had already been there for about six months. Israel also happened to be one of the unit’s instructor pilots. In Nam we called everyone by his last name.
Many pilots in our company cracked nose bubbles against tree-tops while flying low-level. It was not uncommon after landing for the crew chief to hop out and clear the tree branches from the skids. One morning, I was assigned to an early mission that included a pickup before the sun came up. The mission started with a pickup MY CHERRY 43 from a helicopter pad located down the beach from our company area. I was assigned to fly with an AC whom I had flown with before. He was usually quite a good pilot, but not that morning.
The leaders of the Americal Division wanted to make sure that this did not happen again. To prevent this, they set up several different fire zones. Some were called free-fire zones, some were restricted, and some were no-fire zones. If we were operating in a restricted fire zone and there were Viet Cong shooting at us, we were required to radio in to headquarters and get proper clearance before we could shoot back. This did not make sense to me. Then even worse, if that same dink (the common term used to describe a Vietnamese) was shooting at you and he was located within five hundred meters of a Vietnamese village, they would not give you clearance to return fire.