Period Audio of Recon Team Extraction.

[Patrick Dempsey]

Hello all,

found this via another forum today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEGWISd6jYs



10 mins of audio.

[Beezman]

I wish my English was better, I could pick up about 30% of the conversation. The stress in the voice of the team leader is unmistakable though.

[Bob Chatt]

Isn't that John Plaster as the Covey Fac?

[Beau Brummel.]

Absolutely Incredible audio!

You are right Bob, Plaster talks about this mission In his books; I was aware the audio existed but never expected to hear It.

That's plaster ralking to 2 teams who have declared a 'prarie fire' emergency, The stress In Mitchels voice ( RT Colorado) Is palpable and plaster reverts to his SOG callsign 'Plasticman' to let him know he Is there and to calm him down.

The other team Is RT Hawai which was plasters old team before he left to fly Covey. I belive they called in their 'Prarie fire' just after Mitchel had and Plaster was worried that he wouldn't be able to get to them In time.

Once again, thank you Patrick this is the most amazing piece of audio I have heard from the period.

Yours, Guy.

[Spikey]

I have this on CD, pretty cool to listen to.

[kammo man]

Spike
Burn me a copy will you ???
I have the Garlic -trackshoe tape that plays well in the war room and this would lend a nice bit of depth when viewing the collection .
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[paul_bish@mac.c]

there is a CD in the post dude, all the SOG audio you could need

[mhk]

Have heard this ages ago but found these later from forums (professionalsoldiers.com)


Callsigns which are used in that record

1) Plasticman John Plaster's personal call sign while on a RT
2) White Lead Huey in charge of flying the rescue mission
3) Delta Papa Three John Plaster's call sign while flying as Covey Rider in Bronco
4) Tango Papa Pat Mitchels call sign as 1-0
5) Panthers AH-1G Cobras. Also known as "Cobra"
6) Kingbees H-34 Helicopters usually flown by Vietnamese pilots
7) Bravo Hotel Ben Het SF camp
8) Delta Tango FOB at Dak To
9) Foxtrot Mike FM radio frequency
10) Victor VHF radio frequency
11) Uniform UHF radio frequency
12) Straw Hat/Type Code name for American personel on a RT
13) Kilo November Known North. Position is "Kilo November"
14) Lurch David Mixter's personel call sign
15) Winchester Air assets that are out of ordnance

[Beau Brummel.]

Thank you MHK.

I've seen a partial list of callsigns for that one but yours contains a couple I hadn't heard. You actually hear Plaster switching between callsigns when talking to Mitchel.

A good friend Is an AAC helicopter pilot who has just processed out and headed back east as a Civilian Contractor. He has a bit of time on his hands between jobs so he Is transcribing the tapes bit by bit.

Paul, would you care to share your SOG radio chatter, dude.

Yours, Guy.

[kammo man]

Nice P
The last one wasabit rough.
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