From: flyn3nvt@adelphia.net
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 21:28:44 PDT
Pretty neat!!! I wish my school had that........I had to read about it on my own from the schools library. Thank you for the Time Life Series.
Growing up on a grass airstrip, we used to get the guys to shoot approaches with UH-1's and OH-6's from the VTANG....... used to run out the door on my porch at the age of 6 and see a huey in hover beating the air into submission and the boys with the loaches flying with the doors off..........I remember it like yesterday. I just hope that the rotor blades never fall silent.
Glad to see that NJ still has them, VT went to UH-60's and they have been a mess with squadron readyness ever since.
---- Floyd Petri <fpetri@eastex.net> wrote:
> Well Bruce it sounds like you have a handle on it. Keep up the good work. I
> have a 1959 Daimler Ferret Armored Car that is registered as a passenger car
> that I drove a lot. It has a dummy .30 Browning in the turret. I have been
> told don't bring it on school property or they will call the law and have me
> arrested. Down here in the Deep South a lot of the schools have zero
> tolerance for anything they just don't happen to like. It is more like a
> medieval fiefdom than a 21st Century School. A 10th grader recently rode by
> after school and off school property and "Mooned" a teacher and was arrested
> and suspended. This is in a town population 285. Had to call the Sheriff 15
> miles away to come hunt him down because we don't have a police force here.
>
> Floyd
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Kalin" <convoy@mtaofnj.us>
> To: "Floyd Petri" <fpetri@eastex.net>
> Cc: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Vietnam History Day - Huey Landing
>
>
> > Floyd,
> >
> > As incredibly strict as New Jersey is with all types of weapons, the
> > school district and the police department work very closely together to
> > not only insure student safety, but also to insure student education. I
> > don't think this type of presentation has been done anywhere else in the
> > country, which is unfortunate, because there are so many of us that would
> > be willing to do the same thing that was just done here.
> >
> > The bottom line is, it takes a lot of pre planning, with everyone from the
> > janitor to the mayor, the police chief, the State Air Guard, the school
> > board, etc. Even the Guard has to do get a lot of pre approvals, including
> > landing permits, flight plans, etc. More importantly, you have to have
> > willing, and cooperative people on all of these levels to pull it off. Any
> > snag along the way, at any of these points and the entire event could have
> > been side tracked.
> >
> > I can't wait for next year, as each year the classes get larger, and the
> > event gets larger, too.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Floyd Petri wrote:
> >> I think that it is great what you did for Vietnam History Day but I am
> >> confused about something. How did you get the School Nazis to permit any
> >> weapons of any kind on school property? I thought zero tolerance would
> >> even arrest the Russians if they invaded since schools no longer have any
> >> common sense and spend more time killing God than teaching history unless
> >> it is Black History or Muslim History. I live in the sticks and if a kid
> >> forgets to remove his rifle from hanging in the rear window of the pickup
> >> before he comes to school he is arrested.
> >>
> >> Floyd
> >> Viet Vet
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Kalin" <convoy@mtaofnj.us>
> >> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 8:50 PM
> >> Subject: [MV] Vietnam History Day - Huey Landing
> >>
> >>
> >>> Here's a link to how I spent Friday, May 6, 2005.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.eastcoastconvoy.com/Vietnam%20Day%202005.html
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for the omission of several names, and a group of photos. I was
> >>> trying to get the photos edited and published as quickly as possible and
> >>> wound up deleting the photos of Lou Cavaluzi's really great display of
> >>> working radios. He set up communications with his home station 20 miles
> >>> away, which was graciously manned by his ham operator wife, Meg. Meg, as
> >>> well as all the other presenters took the day off from work to assist in
> >>> this endeavor. The students were fascinated, as they spoke to Meg on the
> >>> 35 year old military radios.
> >>>
> >>> In addition, Lou helped set up truck to truck communications with
> >>> several of the display vehicles that had operational radios.
> >>>
> >>> My thanks to all who helped make this day a resounding success for the
> >>> lucky students of Southern Regional High School.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Bruce Kalin
> >>> Convoy coordinator
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