The Vietnam Era

ozzie · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:22 pm

Sounds just like Sydney after the nightclubs close.

Pete Cottam · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:47 pm

Tafmo,Tafmo,Tafmo, :axe:

similiar to Well,Well,Well :twisted:

three holes in the ground, :rolleyes:

EWE and SEEBISCUIT have never had an unbiased opinion in your lives :finga:

and I want to know how EWE got hold of my NATIVE LEAVE ADDRESSES #-o

when I was part of the GREY FUNNEL LINE :-k

I did cut a dashing figure in my lace Teddy Though :finga:

and EWE leave my PIGSKIN Chamois outa this CBISCUIT
the only reason I kept it in my locker was to stop EWE rubbing you bloody great PROBISCUS in it :vom:

HHAAAAAAA HHAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAA
Luv ya like a brudder DINGOS DONGER

phred · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:52 pm

You know the Warthogs are low when, before you hear the roar of the engines as they fly overhead, you hear a loud, rather strange air sucking sound. When we lived in the small town of Holland , Massachusetts (less than 1800 people, but 6,000 dogs) we discovered that the US Air Force had a low altitude training route right above us. The A-10s would fly one time a year low and fast down over the reservoir and our house. The first time it happened while we were there, my wife looked up as we were rqaking leaves and said, "What's that stra.........." The rest of her words were lost to the roar of the engines at full power. She never knew that it was possible to hear the air intake like that, and to tell the truth, I had someone tellme it was but I thought he was just making it up.

The rest of the year we had C-130s doing low altitude runs over us. Not so bad when there is only one, but six in one flight tended to make the house shake. Of course the Air force denied that they ever flew that low.

When we first moved there, my brother-in-law came out with some stuff for us and I didn't have any beer so we went down to the local tavern. As we sat there enjoying our beer, the New England Patriots were playing the Miami Dolphins in the play offs. (This was before cable was available there) All of a sudden, the tv picture disappeared and was replaced with squiggly lines, the audio was fine though. One of the patron's said, "F****ng Air Force!" and looked out of the window. I looked where he was looking out across the reservoir and there was a C-130 just clearing the hill on the other side heading right for us. He went over and drowned out everything with the roar of those turbo props. When I first saw him, you couldn't see any sky between the tops of the trees and the bottom of the plane.

I could tell you more stories of C-130s in that town (and of the tavern too) but I think I've gone on long enough.

Pete Cottam · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:06 pm

SEEBISCUIT [-X

No more comments about pigskin,Radarmen wearing lipstick or lace teddys :twisted:

I found this photo amongst my souviners, :finga:

I think one of our Cocktail partys,probably the night EWE were done up as a KAITAI :vom:

FIJI...I believe :rolleyes:

I had to fight off all you BUMPOKERS ,CHIPRITES,and BULB CHANGERS
all night :heart:

AAARRRRRRRRR AAARRRRRRRR AAARRRRRRRRR

tafmo · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:10 pm

So let's have a look at this said photo Lumpy. :supz:

Seejay · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:08 pm

Peter Aloysius Cottam, you are a sick person! :rolleyes:

Go to your room and shackle yourself back into bed!

Cheers

CJ

p.s. You've stopped taking The Pills again, haven't you? :axe:

Berky · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:26 pm

Looking back at Vietnam and the 60's, reckon the music I favoured put me as the most unlikely person to even consider joining the RAN in '71, or any Military participation whatsoever.

Sheesh, what with all the anti war stuff going around like CSNY - Crosby Stills Nash & Young,
"And I dreamed I saw the bombers, riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above our nation, we are stardust, we are golden...." etc.

and CCR - Creedence Clearwater Revival blasting out Fortunate Son,
blimey, big turnaround considering in the 70's I was blasting them thar 'butterflies' out of the sky.

Hippy Chippy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:48 am

Nice photo Lumpy...!!! :-k

(See previous page, or click here:)

http://www.ran-skilledhands.org/forum/v ... 3287#13287

Lou Butcher · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:44 am

By the way this forum has degenerated to hippy-fest, I think more than salad leaves was ingested in the late sixties.

Lets get back to the important things, like cars, motorcycles, lifestyles of the middle class.

I for one couldn't afford the luxury of paisley shirts, rock and/or roll records. But I did have that ambition to own a motorcycle. I learnt to ride on a Norton around the apple orchards in Hastings (Vic). Was chased by the local copper and managed to loss him by going off-road and hide the bike and walked home only to be stopped by the sight of the cop car outside of our house.
#-o

Major mistake #1. Never try and run from the coppers in a small town. Especially if he lives in the same street. #-o

.

My brother and I have the some what dubious honour of setting fire to our fathers garage, when we played with matches. I did manage to push the BSA out of the shed, and went back in the push out the car. Had enough sense to get the Motorcycle out first. Couldn't understand why the Old Man was pissed off. The car was one of those long bonnet Humbers. It did survive and got us back to Perth in 1960.
I've only seen one since then and that was at Noble Park RSL 2 years . As for the bike heaven knows were it went.

My father was bitten by the go-carting bug back then when he was at CERBERUS, and he conned the Blacksmith at the time to construct the cart fram from boiler tubing. It never went further than that and still sits on Mums garden shed in Perth.

I think the old man had plans to put in a straight six block in the cart. It was big enough. :supz:

With the designs and composite materials today he would needed a six cyclinder to make it move.

Seejay · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:28 pm

Talking about vegetable matter and it's availability, the ready availability of all sorts of drugs these days craps all over the 60's!

I remember in late 67 there was a certain amount of drug use at Nirimba, and purple hearts (speed) were becoming available. That and whoopie weed were about the max the average sailor was exposed to. Unless of course he became part of the regular scene in the Cross. Then all sorts of possibilities happened. Some of my term even flirted with it for a while, and were even silly enough to believe nobody knew. #-o

Jump to the present day and age, and it's an option available even to primary school kids. Ecstacy, Ice, Speed, Marijuana, Cocaine and Heroin - all freely available, and virtually no control over it.

For sure, the sixties were a better time. I'd go back in a minute if it were possible to 1962.

Cheers

CJ

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