{"id":17235,"date":"2010-02-05T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:42:30","slug":"moatengator-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17235","title":{"rendered":"Moatengator memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, I vacationed in Panama and made my brother-in-law take me out to the old drop zone we used on Howard Air Force Base and, of course I blogged about it<\/a>. Several people from the unit, nicknamed Moatengators, found the post and commented. One of them sent me a load of pictures this week that he wanted me to share. Here’s a picture of our donor waiting for the chopper behind our barracks;<\/p>\n

\"Trotti<\/a>
\n
\nHe must’ve been a newbie, because this is a picture of our barracks after we got air conditioning. When I arrived, we just had screens;
\n\"Company<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are our mascots, a couple of caymans. When I was there they both had five actual parachute jumps. I remember the first sergeant built the new pit with “volunteer” labor from the Art. 15 extra duty troops.<\/p>\n

\"Gator<\/a><\/p>\n

We had a lot of helicopter jumps. This one is from a Chinook;<\/p>\n

\"Chinook<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a view of Venado DZ no one will ever get again. It must’ve been right after the dry season, because during the wet season, all you’d see is the top of the 12′ elephant grass;<\/p>\n

\"Feet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, once we were on the ground, we were all grunts;<\/p>\n

\"Field<\/a><\/p>\n

I can’t count the hours I spent at this bus station on “the morning after” waiting for the bus back to Fort Kobbe;<\/p>\n

\"Bus<\/a><\/p>\n

Old timers will remember sharing seats on these chiva-chiva buses with crates of chickens headed to market. Sadly, the chiva-chivas are no longer in service;<\/p>\n

\"Bus\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He sent us a whole pile of pictures and I can’t post them all, so you can go see them at My Photostream on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Terry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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