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Irish_Dem

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21. Oh I thought it might be a damn Huey.

Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:05 AM

Oct 25

The mortality rate was so high.

Maybe you can answer a question for me.
Send me a pm if it is secret squirrel stuff.

My Dad was career USAF and we were stationed overseas during the VN war.
One of our neighbors was a young captain and he and his wife had two
young children, I used to babysit for them all the time.

This captain was in a reconnaissance squadron.

I don't know what kind of aircraft he flew.
But I would ask him what he was going to do when he left for TDY and he aways
told me he was dropping weather balloons on a nearby island.

I knew it did not take a week to two weeks to drop weather balloons so close to home, I always
wondered what he was doing.

I have recently learned that a stop secret project during the VN war was the use of drones.
Could he have been dropping drones?

Did you know anything about this project?

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Bo Zarts in Vietnam (ca. 1970) [View all] Bo Zarts Oct 24 OP

Thank you for your service sir! Grumpy Old Guy Oct 24 #1

What are you flying there Bo? Irish_Dem Oct 24 #2

Army RU-8D Bo Zarts Oct 24 #9

I just googled and found an interesting write up on the RU-8D. ShazzieB Oct 25 #19

Beat me to it orangecrush Oct 25 #25

Thanks! What memories. Bo Zarts Oct 25 #27

Oh I thought it might be a damn Huey. Irish_Dem Oct 25 #21

So glad you made it back home, Bo Zarts. democrank Oct 24 #3

I'd know that grin anywhere! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 24 #4

Still grinnin' after all these years! Bo Zarts Oct 24 #8

That you are! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 24 #11

This wasn't you with the camera? usonian Oct 24 #5

Private Joker! Bo Zarts Oct 24 #7

I see a bit of Jack Nicholson deviltry... yorkster Oct 24 #6

Jack could have learned from me .. Bo Zarts Oct 24 #10

dashing! nilram Oct 24 #12

so cool! Skittles Oct 24 #13

Very cool. Ellipsis Oct 24 #14

Neat portrait Bo. Glad you are grinning still! George McGovern Oct 24 #15

Glad you made it home safely to keep those wonderful photos coming. surfered Oct 24 #16

"" AllaN01Bear Oct 24 #17

VERY handsome! calimary Oct 24 #18

Glad you made it back brother HAB911 Oct 25 #20

Nice photo Sanity Claws Oct 25 #22

Sierra Hotel orangecrush Oct 25 #23

"If you could see the pilot smile, and he waved out of the window, then it had to be those crazy 'spooks' from the 138th orangecrush Oct 25 #24

Ty for your service! SheltieLover Oct 25 #26

great action portrait there, Bo Zarts peacebuzzard Oct 25 #28

My dearest Bo Zarts ... we're probably around the same age FakeNoose Oct 25 #29

When I got out of the Army, I immediately joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Bo Zarts Sunday #30