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[?] the merest crew gave runway and -
crash crew pulled up and ambulance appeared
[?]. Crash crew hosed down the aircraft -
I took Sam Pretus and then drove up
the runway to return pieces. Found both
[?] - are tore right in half - Met
the RDO Jerry Cadick - Peddling down
the runway with pieces of [?] [?] [?]
& strut housing - Somebody else picked up
the gear. Total elapsed time from first
tower call to touchdown - 90 seconds -
I returned my gear and went to
sick bay with Doc Guines - [?] physical
check & exrays for stiff neck - grounded for
24 hours - enough excitement for one day -
0906 - 11 July 1967

14 July -

Long day today - awake at 0700 to
stand alert - launched about 0400 with
MAJOR Blockington - Rockets - [?] for troops
going in sort of the - [?] after flight
work on the LZ but copter didn't arrive and
we bingoed - bad aircraft - [?] [?] [?]
shitty radio - no instrument lights -

Left for Danang at 0800 after [?] Breckfort
CH-53 to [?] hit - [?] to [havline?] -
Picked up checks and use [?] & back to
Chu Lai - Same bird I'd taken hit in - 10 days to
[?] - Had big electrical problems - no
gyro - R141 a turn a speedbrake - weren't
all on same bus so suspected canon play
[?] - Sure enough - [?] save & fixed -
manal speedbrake cable broken. - left
Danang on 1245 for .5 and quick test hop to
Chu Lai -

O-Annual - assumed afternoon alert -
launched [?] - Emergency run extraction -
with Dick Jacobs - Good hop - well controled
& coordinated we maped & strafed as copter
went in - the whole world cut loose ! -
then baked after they lifted out -

Fell asleep early -