RUSS MARSDEN
Longknife Crewchief

My rank when I got to  D Troop was SP4 and I left as a SP5.
I arrived in country 6/15/70 and was stationed in Soc Trang with the 336AHC, Soc Trang Tigers. Then in November of that year the base  was turned over to Marvin the ARVN and I was re-assigned to D Troop 3/5 at Vinh Long. I stayed there until 5/15/71. The Troop had Loaches, Cobras, and Hueys.
I was assigned to the Longknife flight platoon as Crewchief on UH-1D 66-197. After a while I got a brand new bird. It was 69-15897 and when I left country Tom Quilty (my last door gunner) took over my duties as c/e.
Some of my A/Cs were Joe Sheeran [24], Dana Brown [22], and “CanDo” Dennis Kennedy[?]
Yes you can use my name if you’d like.
I have many photos and some documents that might be of interest to you or some of the other guys, also in the memory dept.; there are a lot of them too.
If I ever get a chance to sit down with, oh, say; Steve Mclain, Tom Quilty, Tom Porter, John B. Williams “Big O”, (By the way, I still owe John) I’m sure we could put together some interesting facts.


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