New Air Section Truck,

 

 

While over there in Vietnam doing our duty with care,
Our pilots had to wait in line at 604th TC to fuel up there.
Our Air section CO had petitioned for a JP4 fuel truck,
So we could haul our own JP4 jet fuel with any luck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New Air Section Truck,

 

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That JP4 truck was approved and delivered to the hill,
So we could fill up those helicopters at our own will.
We parked the truck near the first helicopter revetment,
And the pilots flew in to refuel as time would let them.

Guess I’ll pull in the revetment for a refuel job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The truck was a duce and a half truck with a tank on back,
Mounted on a frame with two eight tandem wheels to track.
The fueling controls were mounted on a panel on its rump,
Including hose connections, hoses, valves, and a pump.

That big ugly rolling bomb just ready to blow up with a sniper bullet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When we had to refill the truck, I had to make the run,
And I sure didn’t consider the run to be too much fun,
As I was sitting on a bomb that a single bullet could ignite,
And fry my whole body to a very crispy black sight.

Im getting too short to get fried driving a JP4 Jet Fuel Truck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The helicopter crew chiefs fueled their own chopper tanks,
After I parked the fuel truck in place near the revetment banks.
If they were off somewhere screwing around out of place,
I filled the tanks with jet fuel to help with their fast pace.

I need fuel, Hawg Jaw I guess you’ll have to fill my tank with JP4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I recall one time when I was gone to get helicopter parts needs.
A Hill high ranking officer told us to cut the weeds,
That were growing waist high on the sides of our runway,
The guys at the air section had an idea to do it the easy way.

The CO says all those weeds at the end of the runway must be cut down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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They took that JP4 truck and sprayed the volatile fuel,
Forty feet and coated the weeds and then lit off that jewel.
I said you crazy guys, it’s lucky you didn’t blow up the whole Hill,
With the huge cloud of explosive vapor made than will kill.

You did what? You guys are crazy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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But they did get all the weeds burned off with that stunt,
And I guess I may have been just a little bit blunt,
Calling them a few choice words such as crazy dumb ass.
For using that JP4 to burn the weeds and the grass.

Just 20 more days and I’ll be headed home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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At this time, I was being very careful and I was getting short,
So I could leave Vietnam and my brand new life start.
I had a letter from Phillips saying I had a $200 raise,
If I went to work for them, when out of the army I phased.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When I finally arrived back in the US and got off the plane,
People in the airports acted like I had the plague,
As I walked by in the airport hall, one guy even spit at me,
After I had spend a year in a war zone serving my country.

What a crazy mixed up world we lived in back in 1970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I didn’t understand why people treated me so bad,
And the ill will surely did make me just a little bit sad,
But I still felt proud wearing my uniform back home,
And I was so happy to be nearing home after being gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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By Bill

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for reading New Air Section Truck,
Bill