AviationBanter - View Single Post - Need proof of trainin in Air Force Base in VA in 1969

**Daryl Hunt**

"Tom in Macon" wrote in message
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"Daryl Hunt" wrote in message
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"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:23:41 -0400, Ogden Johnson III
wrote:

Charlie Wolf wrote:

Can any of you regulars here in r.a.m.n. help with this request??

Or point him in the right direction?
Regards,

On 10 Oct 2006 11:09:34 -0700, "msvuh"
wrote:

My friend, Mr. Ho, is currently petitioning for resettlement in the
US.
In his last interview, he was asked to present a Certificate of
Completion for a Helicopter Maintenance and Repairman in an Air Force
Base in Virginia in 1969. Mr. Ho does not remember the name of the
school. What he remembers is from the base to Washington D.C. it's
about one day bus drive. Mr. Ho does not have any paperwork associated
with the training he had in the US for that year as they were all
burned in 1975 when South Vietnam collapsed for fear of persecution.

I hope you can gear me to the right direction. If you need further
information. Please contact me via email or
telephone (310) 223-0370

If this is not the right group to post this message, please provide a
correct name of the group. I will not bother in the future.

Toi hieu tieng Vietnam. Cam on.

msvuh

If he's sure it was an Air Force Base, and in Virginia, then
Langley AFB is about the only choice. Down in the Hampton
Roads/Norfolk/Tidewater area, it is only a 3-, 4-hour max drive
from DC. Even the commercial bus doesn't take but about 5-,
5-1/2 hours. AFAIK, Langley has generally been about fighters
and R&D - missiles, mainly - and not helos. But there may be
some reason they could have done helo maintenance training there
during the VN war for some reason that would make sense only to
the Air Farce.

Helicopter Maintenance and Repairman? AF in 1969 had few helicopters.
Training for helo pilots had already moved to Ft. Wolters under the
Army. The term "Repairman" would never be used for a maintainer in the
USAF.

While I don't know enough to correct nor confirm your Helo training
locations, I do know that in 1969 and 1970, Specialtists were called
Repairmen.

And I attended the Ground Communications Equipment Repairman Course at
Keesler in 58 and 59.

Ah, a jammer mech, huh

Maintenance school would be a "tech school" and all of those were
under Air Training Command at TTCs (Tech Training Centers)--places
like Lowry, Chanute, Lackland, Keesler. Certainly not at Langley and I
can't quickly think of another AF installation in VA.

If this guy were in the US, I might be thinking "wannabe".

The use of Repariman tells me he just might not be a wannbe.

BTW, Ed, you had repairman working on your F-4 and you survived(g)

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
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