is there any Vietnam vets that?

Question

have had any experiance with a spooky gun ship. wether it be aboard one or had to have one called in. tried to get my dad to talk about his, when he had to call one in, but he won't talk about it. heck he bearly talks about any of his experiances over there. So i don't push him, i know he will talk to me when he is ready to, as he always has. i was just wondering cause i've heard so much about these planes. thanks

rich, you are right about that but he has told opened up to me on aome of the stuff he has done and been through there, ever since i joined the military in 97, but for some reason this one subject is always been skated around, was just looking for some insite on this aircraft, thanks for the sites, i have looked at a lot of sites on this air craft just looking for some first hand experiances with it.

snoop yes i know that,, as far as not being mature about it, what ever, i am asking as a vet to anouther, your right the whole time i was growing up he would never talk about it, at all, but when you fall in the been there done that area, you can find out more about it. and yes been there done that thank you, your right there are somethings that i will never talk about to some one that hasn't been through it, and would never understand but thanks any way.

Answer 1

I never flew The gunships i think you are talking about i served in Vietnam 1966/1967 with the Marines 7th motor transportation battalion stationed at Phu-Bia (PRONOUNCED FOO-BY) South Vietnam near the DMZ And these gun ships weren't spooky they were your friend We called them PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON.They were airplanes i think kc130's outfitted with 50 caliber anti aircraft machine guns i don't remember how many guns but when they came you would know, every fifth round was a tracer and from the ground it would look like a line of red electricity from the plane.Give your Dad time if he wants to talk he will he just wants to protect you and his family.It was a terrible war and we all lost a lot of friends I call them the fallen angels. remember most were between 18&23,i hope this helps.Its been over fourty years and i just started talking I visit the Vet center and Va hospital and that helps a lot.

Answer 2

I am not a Vietnam Vet or a WWII Vet but am the wife of one and the daughter of the other. NEITHER have ever talked about what they truly went through. It's not something you ask with a grin. My father talked a bit about his experience when he was in his late 70's. He didn't share much. It's something you wouldn't ask if you were mature. What your father went through is not for sharing -- like show and tell -- Please don't ask him anything. If he chooses to tell you , he will. It took my DAD over 50 yrs. before he shared a little bit of what he went through. My husband still doesn't' talk. Viet. Vet. and I don't ask much!

It's not about gun ships............that's why your Dad hasn't answered you.

Good Luck!! And please just don't ask questions.

Answer 3

You might be thinking of the Spectre AC-130U. It's callsign was Spooky. And it was an amazing hunk of flying death to ground troops and installations. The accuracy was unbelievable and the firepower staggering.

Your Dad may never speak of his time in-country. It changed a lot of men and women, some for the worse, some for better but it changed everyone who was there.

Answer 4

i'm a disgruntled Vietnam veteran too, yet i don't think of i'm really as indignant as Wayn C. in the course of the Vietnam conflict the liberal media deliberately demonized the troops serving in Vietnam to promote their competition to the conflict. earlier lengthy it replaced into inconvenient for every person contained in the defense force to positioned on their uniform off base. It replaced into required to qualify for defense force savings on airways, so lots of confrontations occurred in airports. this concepts-set replaced into carried over into the 70's and it replaced into usually socially ideal to educate disrespect for those those who had served in the course of the conflict. i began noticing a replace about the time the Iranian "scholars" overran our embassy there. even as Ronald Regan got here in equivalent to the Vietnam Vet replaced into rehabilitated, and it replaced into now not socially ideal to spit on a vet or call us toddler-killers. The extra radical anti-conflict liberals not in any respect replaced their minds, they only stopped appearing out in public. Then a sparkling image of the Vietnam Vet--as a looser plagued by emotional issues--got here into fashion. The media all started encouraging those who declare they were vets suffering form submit worrying rigidity ailment to go back ahead. A study through B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley of their e book Stolen Valor proved a large variety of those cry-children had not in any respect served in wrestle, maximum had not severed in Vietnam, and many had not served contained in the defense force in any respect. It replaced into only yet differently for the liberal media to demonize those those who had served even as pretending to care (and a source for lots of those myths Wayn C reported). even as troops deployed to the middle East for Operation barren area guard some previous anti-conflict sorts gleefully all started in on their previous rants about how evil the defense force is. the american human beings (led through the Vietnam Vets) jointly informed them to close up. very much shocked, they took a sparkling tact. that's now socially ideal to assert you oppose the conflict yet appreciate the warrior (the sarcasm is oftentimes very thinly disguised). in truth, most of the former-line anti-conflict demonstrators of the 60's and 70's lengthy for the reliable previous days even as they could brazenly spit on adult males (and females) in uniform and not in any respect conflict through any severe backlash. besides, that is my journey and opinion. Edit: Wayne C--thanks for the comments.