Rattler/Firebird Guestbook
John Mateyko [E-mail]
Former: Officer Pilot with Company A/501st Aviation Battalion
Call sign: Rattler 21
Jim, I am waiting for your version of the night Jug Head tried to close the Rattler Den while Martha Raye was singing and drinking with us. John
October 10, 2021 - Lansing, IL United States
Robert Martin [E-mail]
Former: with
Call sign:
Hello all, I’m sad to report that my grandfather, Arthur Hathaway of Santa Rosa, CA, has passed away. He was a door gunner with y’all from like 67-69, got wounded and discharged. I thought I told y’all back when he passed this winter but I don’t think I did. I know he and Grandma made it to the reunion in Nashville back in 09 or 10 but he didn’t mention much since then. I briefly got him online this past winter but he passed away before he could get comfy with it. He leaves behind 4 grandchildren (3 of us Army veterans) and a lot of good memories. We miss him a lot. He is buried in the National Cemetery in Dixon, CA. -Robert Martin
October 4, 2021 - San Marcos, TX USA
Douglass H Starkey [E-mail]
Former: Enlisted Door Gunner with 71st Assault Helicopter Company
Call sign:
No news letter either, post office slow!
October 1, 2021 - ELIOT, Maine United States
Bill Lurvey [E-mail]
Former: Warrant Officer with 71st Assault Helicopter Company
Call sign: rattler20
No news letter either, post office slow!
September 29, 2021 - ,
greg arndt [E-mail]
Former: with 71st Assault Helicopter Company
Call sign:
Didn't get my news letter yet either.
September 29, 2021 - ,
John E. Reis [E-mail]
Former: Enlisted Maintenance with 151st Transportation Detachment
Call sign:
HI just wondering did anybody get there news lettler
September 29, 2021 - ,
John Glasco [E-mail]
Former: with
Call sign:
I just read that Joe Galloway has passed. Joe "God's Own Lunatics" saved me from becoming one of the "22". I hope he knew how much he meant to some of us John Glasco Crew Engineer 71 st aviation.
September 27, 2021 - Gresham, Or Us
jim moore [E-mail]
Former: with
Call sign:
Oh Saigon, oh Saigon's a hell of a place; the organisation's a f''''n disgrace. There's Captain s and Majors and Light Colonel's too, with their hands in their pockets and nothing to do. They stand on the runway, they scream and they shout, about many things they know nothing about. For all that they're doing they might as well be, a=hovelling shit on the isle of Capri. Saigon...
September 24, 2021 - quantico, MD United States
jim moore [E-mail]
Former: with
Call sign:
Another RATTLER song; Well I was goin' down to Quinhon, just to help a little bit, carryin' in some rice and all that shit; but the weather in the pass, it was right down on the grass, and I only had three hundred pounds of gas Oh my dear ole Daddy Gray, are you sendin' me away, down to the delta where I'll die quick? Well I'm floatin' cross the country in a big ole Caribou, and I'm never goin' back to ole Pleiku!
September 24, 2021 - quantico, MD United States
jim moore [E-mail]
Former: with
Call sign:
Another RATTLER song; Well I was goin' down to Quinhon, just to help a little bit, carryin' in some rice and all that shit; but the weather in the pass, it was right down on the grass, and I only had three hundred pounds of gas Oh my dear ole Daddy Gray, are you sendin' me away, down to the delta where I'll die quick? Well I'm floatin' cross the country in a big ole Caribou, and I'm never goin' back to ole Pleiku!
September 24, 2021 - quantico, MD United States