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162nd Assault Helicopter Company - "Vultures, Copperheads"

Click here to visit the 162nd Assault Helicopter Company Click here to read a history of the 162nd courtesy of Stan Gause Click here to view a 162nd AHC tribute video on YouTube Click here to visit Vulture 22 Click here to watch a video on the 162nd AHC
Patches and insignia of the 162nd AHC Images courtesy of Eric Bray
Vietmade company patch with addition of pilot call-sign. STS sttod for ' Slicker than Sh*t Image courtesy of John Jones	Beercan Version of standard company patch Image courtesy of John Jones	Beercan Version of Gun Platoon Patch. Image courtesy of John Jones
Warrant officer Roy. A. Leston, VULTURE 29 Image courtesy of John Jones	Image courtesy of John Jones	Vulture 29 W01 Jim Ewart Image courtesy of Jim Ewart, 162 AHC. Vulture 29, Can Tho 69-70, WORWAC 69-21-Red Hats
Short final to Can Tho ( North Swamp) Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	Vulture living quarters (Can Tho) Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	Look inside one of the tents. Image courtesy of Jim Ewart
2nd. Platoon pilots Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	WO's Rigney, Ewart, Good Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	Swift Boats at Seafloat ( Nam Can) Image courtesy of Jim Ewart
Leaving Nam Can with Navy personnel Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	WOs Rigney & Good Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	Vultures departing Ca Mau on C.A. Image courtesy of Jim Ewart
Nam Can ( I believe) Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	Cement Factory Image courtesy of Jim Ewart	Good Night Can Tho Image courtesy of Jim Ewart
The Ash & Trash Flight Line Unschedueled Maint. Team from l to r standing: Richard (Chino) Thompson, Wayne E. Thomas, David Holt,Larry Cox, top l to r: Charlie Hott, James Warren. Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Lt. Larry Tabert (Maint.Officer) coming out of Operations. Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Wayne Thomas working out with his concrete buckets. Image courtesy of Eric Bray
Co. Area Entrance at Can Tho, Operations in back ground. Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Ship that crashed just outside the Berm, It was the first Flight for Maint. Team Leader Greg Price when he went to Flight Platoon, he came back to Maint. Also this will be the same ship through out these Images. Image courtesy of Eric Bray	David Holt Image courtesy of Eric Bray
Charlie Hott Image courtesy of Eric Bray	David Holt Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Harry Oranje Image courtesy of Eric Bray
James Warren Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Jerry Dean Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Jim Bishop Image courtesy of Eric Bray
WO William Jimmis Image courtesy of Eric Bray	SP5 George Small Image courtesy of Eric Bray	PFC Joe Harbison Image courtesy of Eric Bray
WO Paul Fretts Image courtesy of Eric Bray	SP4 Russel Scheaffer Image courtesy of Eric Bray	WO Eric Bray Image courtesy of Eric Bray
SP4 Gary Wingarten Image courtesy of Eric Bray	CPT William Howell Image courtesy of Eric Bray	WO Dennis Bankson Image courtesy of Eric Bray
WO Leroy Dike Image courtesy of Eric Bray	SP4 Bill Clark Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Newspaper article Image courtesy of Eric Bray
WO1 Laurence - KIA Image courtesy of Eric Bray	WO1 O'Connor - KIA Image courtesy of Eric Bray	WO1 Spence - KIA Image courtesy of Eric Bray
SP5 Dillon - KIA Image courtesy of Eric Bray	SP4 Larry Dietz - KIA Image courtesy of Eric Bray	This is the Australian Vietnam War Memorial with engraving of a flight of 162nd Helicopters picking up troops from the Australian army in 1967. Image courtesy of Eric Bray
Early 162nd AHC Gunship (Copperheads) Nose Art '67-'68. Image courtesy of Eric Bray	KIA ? WO1 Robert Colatruglio Image courtesy of Eric Bray	KIA - SP4 Brian Murray Image courtesy of Eric Bray
Example of a Copperhead Plaque given to ACs as they reached their DEROS and stopped flying. Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Image courtesy of Eric Bray
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Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Sandoz, Melville, Bennet, Taylor, Grote, & Hammonds Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Last Copperhead Gunship Pilots at unit stand down 4/72 Image courtesy of Eric Bray
Multiple exposure time lapse photography! Image courtesy of Eric Bray	A really important supply mission - You notice the door gunner is ?guarding? the supplies with his trusty M-60! Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Setting sun in background by Montgomery Image courtesy of Eric Bray
Morning Sun Rising by Stan Gause Image courtesy of Eric Bray	Morning Mist by Pilkinton Image courtesy of Eric Bray	WO1 James Bruhn - KIA Image courtesy of Eric Bray
Remember in the summer of 1970 and command allowed us to name our aircraft again? Remember when the "names" could only be a certain size and only written on the forward bulkhead walls? Well I named my aircraft "The Stormy Petrel II" after my college mascot! Here is a photograph where you can see the name painted on the side of my aircraft! You can see the name just above Jim Ewarts head! The reason why I names it "The Stormy Petrel II" is because the ORIGINAL "Stormy Petrel" was a B-29 flown by another alumnus from our college during World War II; this photograph tells his story! I don't think any alumni kept the tradition going in either Iraq or Afghanistan! Image courtesy of CW2 Eric W. Bray; Flight Class 69-37, 162nd AHC 12/69-12/70
CW2 Ronald D. Freer 1967 - WO1 Ronald Freer and WO1 William Vance had an engine failure over dense jungle with no place to land but managed to auto-rotate beautifully into a lone bomb crater with little damage. Died after his tour in Vietnam on 03/13/1970 at the age of 23 from Car accident Popular Bluff, MO Flight Class 66-21 Date of Birth 07/27/1946 Served in the U.S. Army Served in Vietnam with 162 AHC in 66-68 Image courtesy of CW2 Eric W. Bray; Flight Class 69-37, 162nd AHC 12/69-12/70

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