1 W E L C O M E 2 MACCS REUNION 2002 3 Reunion Committee Hard at Work

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W E L C O M E

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MACCS REUNION 2002

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Reunion Committee Hard at Work

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Still Hard at Work

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There they are...

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Yes, Tom made it ...

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and so did Edda ...

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A Walk Down Memory Lane

• Light Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion

• Marine Air Control Squadron

• Marine Air Traffic Control Unit

• Marine Air Support Squadron

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In the Beginning

• As early as the 1920’s Marines were experimenting with aircraft in order to guide them towards intended targets or assist them in landing safely.

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There were a few...

• During World War I Marine Aviators relied on pre-briefed missions and hand and arm signals to conduct missions which consisted mostly of observation and limited bombing raids.

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Who Dared to Dream ...

• Of a better way to take the battle to the enemy and make him never to want to wage war again.

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The object of all our attention, affection and derision for so many years

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Some of us flew the things

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I mean REALLY flew ‘em

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Some of us shot at the things

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and hit ‘em

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Some of us jumped out of the things

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Some of us dropped things from them

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Getting THERE

• …where ever THERE was! We had to have dependable transportation. And, our Navy brothers always did the best that they could to support the Marines.

• And, we always had a little help from the • First Marine Aircraft Wing• Second Marine Aircraft Wing• Third Marine Aircraft Wing• Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing

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F U N T R A V E L

• The early days of travel were by flat bottomed boats that rolled and pitched --even in good weather.

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OFF TO ENSANADA

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The Band Plays On

• Coming or going…. The band was always there God Bless ‘em...

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• Who are these young kids???

• Well …There’s Dick & Herb … and then there’s Dick, Bob, and Herb.

• Do they ever work?????

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Welcome to the Orient

Only limited number of GI’s like Bill Ganz and Red Yezzi can eat our kimche … Even we cannot stand it … PHEW!!

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Okinawa 1976 MAX and His Staff

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MACG-18 Staff 1978

• And a fine looking staff they were. • But nothing ever compared to the 1975 MACG-18

Staff ... Right AL?????

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MACG-28 Change of Command

• Lyell Holmes and Bob McCamey 1978

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Lyell Holmes & Duffy VerdonChange of Command

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And now, the units ...

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Light Anti-AircraftMissile Battalion

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The Old Corps

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I see everything!

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Range Only RadarSees Nothing

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Birds Away

• No matter how many were fired,

• it was never boring or dull….

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And Always Colorful

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BQM-5 Target Drone

• And the Navy said that this shot was a near miss, that the HAWK was not that accurate….until they fished it out of the ocean. A 3dLAAM Bn kill 1967. John Dixon, Jack Keene & Lacy Causey

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Promotion

• Max pins on Larry Smith’s bars and then everyone adjourned to the chapel for lemonade and cookies.

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REALREAL Air Defense

• In the olden days….it was a lot of fun to shoot these big guns too…right, Max?????

• Well check this out……….

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21st Century Air Defense

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Linda thinks that Joe is writing…he’s actually asleep.

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M A C S

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The Good Old Days

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MACS-7 Ops Site Chu Lai TAOR

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More MACS-7 Last non-MTDS Squadron to serve in RVN, relieved by MACS-4 in 1967

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HEEEERRRRRS CHIPPER!!!YEP, THAT’S A BUD HE’S DRINKING…..

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Operating Site

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Oblique Angle of Site

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Sea Bees Pour TPS-34B Pad

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General Green, CMC visitsLtCol Buschmann, MSgt Harvey Lee, CWO Dan Massarotti

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MACS-4 RVN

• Lyell never could get Chipper to tell him where the treasure was buried...

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MACS-4 Main Street

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Two Views of Danang

• Four Corners traffic jam and a million dollar view from the mountain…nice shot Chipper..

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Double Change of CommandGibson & Scibeck

Hoppmeyer & Goodlake

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Air to Air Intercept

• Bring up your power a bit……

• YIKES!!!!!

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The photographer thinks I’m the Ump cause I got the cap

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That’s pepperoni on one and sausage on the other one...

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MACS Scopes

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MACS-4 & Battery “B”in RVN

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Marine Corps Birthday 1967LtCol Buschmann reads…Joe Robben is on his right

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Jerry Elliott and Mitch Steinberg are promoted.

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F8U Wreckage OP Site on Top of Hill

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Balmy Korea

MACS-4 on Team Spirit 1978… Where the livin’ was easy and main street was always busy

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Command is Lonely

• …let’s see now, Tom was about 60 years old in 1978…But the troops loved him as evidenced by the fact that they followed him to Korea in the winter.

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BEAUTIES 2; BEASTS 4.

• Red, Dick, Dick, Beth, Jim and Charna…

• Mike must be taking the picture…..

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Dick Takes Charge….

• …I’ve got the duty and I don’t care if you are a General…you can’t do PT in your skivvies.

• And as for you Mulkerin, get a cover on that bald head...

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Dick sent to his office by Mulqueen and Mulkerin to consider his error….

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UYQ-4 Test Team 1981

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TACC KOREA 1982RE-ENLISTMENT

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MARINE AIR SUPPORT SQUADRON

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MR. TACT

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MASS-2 1962

• Wold and Causey demonstrate their engineering skills at the BOQ…. The job never got the George Elias Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval….

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SARDINIA 1974Lt Lucky Block & Sgt Ellis King

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MIFASS Test Team 1984DASC & Artillery Personnel

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MARINE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL UNIT

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Your picture could be here if you had sent me a picture…and if you were there in ‘68.

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Quang Tri 1968

• We build ‘em…they blow ‘em up…

• But, the rent was cheap and the livin’ was easy.

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More Quang Tri

• And when they shot at us, we went from this…

• To this….real quick!

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Happy Campers!

• The Friday night bridge game…we invited Herb but he never showed up.

• And yes, white ‘T’ shirts make the best targets… the one wearing glasses is a USAF pilot.

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OOOOPS!!!!

• No, this was not a botched GCA final by Jim Hardy…The bad guys fired so many 122’s that they had to hit something.

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THE REAL WORLD

• The sand absorbed a lot of the rockets shrapnel and saved a lot of lives.

• The Super Shuttle it ain’t……….

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The Dong Ha Ammo Dump

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21st Century GCA

• On Course …

• On Glide Path ...

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Birthdays & Dining In

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Marine Corps BirthdayMWHG-1 Iwakuni - 1964

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Then, a Dining In(MACS-2 1967)

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Good Drink,(MACS-2 1967)

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Good Food, and

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Good Fellowship...

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Why We Do What We Do

• Because they are doing it now…..

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And They Did it Before Us

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Good Bye, Semper Fidelis