From: grntrks@juno.com
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 02:30:03 PST
Tom,
I live about 50 miles from "?" ( Camp - Fort - AFB ) Wolters. The main
base is now an Industrial Park, owned by the city of Mineral Wells. There
a Army Reserve or National Guard armor unit there, 49th Armor Div. I
think. A friend of mine owned the former motor pool for several years and
I kept DUKTAPE there for about 3 years. The helicopter ramp and hangers
are now privately owned and there was a company there that woked on small
civvy whirlybirds there. Don't know if they are still there or not. Been
a couple years since I was there.
I heard a group was trying to put together a museum for the Vietnam
pilots that trained out there, but haven't heard how they are
progressing.
Most of the training area ( boondocks ) is now a Texas State Park. The
rifle range is still in use during training weekends.
Regards,
Frank Cox
'Nam 1966, USAF
MVPA 14530
1945 GMC 353 DUKW " DUKTAPE "
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 23:08:39 -0500 "Thomas M McHugh" <tmmchugh@msn.com>
writes:
> Ft Wolters ???
>
> I was stationed at Wolters AFB in Mineral Wells Texas from Jan 1952
> until
> April 1954 with SCARWAF (Special Category Army Attached With Air
> Force)units.
>
> I had heard it was changed to Ft Wolters, but cannot find out
> anything about
> the base. Is it still in existence ???
>
> Tom McHugh, NJ
> 1952 M38A1
> M-416 Trailer
> MVPA, MTA, Red Ball Transport
> KWVA NJ State Commander Korean War Veterans association
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Subject: Re: [MV] MV Magazine Apr Issue
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "International Movie Services" <ims@telus.net>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] MV Magazine Apr Issue
> >
> >
> >> We think the Hiller will fly!!
> >
> > I'd settle for "get the blades to rotate without the use of C4" at
> the
> > moment. :)
> >
> > Actually, it's a thing of beauty. It's sitting in the bottom of
> this
> > forested gully with muck and slime and the vulture-picked bones of
> many a
> > 1960's travel-trailer littering the surrounding area, but there it
> sits -
> > complete - all cocooned in black-plastic garbage bags with its US
> ARMY
> > markings on the tail-boom showing through an indifferently-applied
> layer
> > of
> > WalMart blue paint. All the avionics are still present - as are
> the nav
> > lights and stuff -- everything right down to the mount and cables
> for the
> > ARC-5. It's a two-stick one we figure came up from Ft. Wolters
> primary
> > helo
> > school before they swapped over to the TH-55 Osage sometime in, I
> think,
> > 1969 - and how it came to be perched on its trailer all nicely
> preserved
> > in
> > the middle of a stand of 20 yr old trees at the bottom of a gully
> is
> > anyone's guess. Probably make a decent History Channel short, or,
> if the
> > rain doesn't stop, a fairly riveting Horror movie. Now we just
> need our
> > long-sought UH-1H non-flyer to keep it company, but nobody seems
> to have
> > anything but bent, naked, perspex-less aluminum which may've once
> attended
> > the masquerade ball *dressed* as a Huey.
> >
> > (We wanted to fly the Hiller out but I can't get my M1009 and
> slave-cable
> > close enough for a jump-start. After all, Microsoft Flight
> Simulator says
> > I'm ready to solo, and who am I to argue with the mighty Bill
> Gates?)
> >
> >
> >
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