Quote Originally Posted by williemays View Post
Semper Fi, @pacifichrono. Where were you at? I was active duty from '88 to '92 with VMFA-112 at Naval Air Station Dallas, and was one of the last USMC F-4 plane captains.



If you want to read about flying Phantoms in combat, try to find a copy of "Phantom Over Vietnam: Fighter Pilot, USMC" by John Trotti. It's worth tracking down.
Oo-rah right back atcha, @williemays. I spent all my Vietnam time in "I Corps," near the DMZ, north of Da Nang: mostly at Cam Lo, the Rock Pile, Con Thien, Dong Ha, and the mouth of the Cua Viet River. Stateside, I was at Pendleton and MCSC Barstow.

I was scheduled to be released from active duty on 1/28/68, when on 1/23/68 the USS Pueblo was seized by North Korea. Initial word was that all enlistments were frozen. Fortunately for me, they let releases go through, even though Commander Lloyd Bucher and his Pueblo crew were held as POWs for almost a year.