Fort Rucker renamed Fort Novosel
 

No more Mother Rucker term for grads

https://www.army.mil/article/265188?...Etefsks3rZrYZg

as the base is being renamed after this legendary WW2 and Vietnam veteran …

As it Happens i hav e scope of his autobiography ‚Dustoff‘

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and at Heli Expo fortnight ago, the Friends of Army Aviation Huey painted in Dustoff markings, bore his name on the starboard door as I saw on arrivals (my below)


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Whoever spray-painted the handwriting "Michal Novasel" made two mistakes, or am I missing something? His signature?

As a graduate of Mother Rucker I approve.

Is this the reason? Wiki :-
Are there any associated statues to be summarily dealt with too?

The could save future name-change costs by calling it Fort Stalin or Fort Lenin.

That'll be the 'port' door chopper! There could be a similar decoration on the starboard door?

The Medal of Honor recipient surely deserves his name to be properly spelt, too! He was a very brave man.

See here: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-...es-in-vietnam/

Yeppers


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Cheers

Another brave Dust off crewman.
Thanks for the pic chopper!

Salute!

Although I resent some of the name changes for various installations, this one seems overdue. Mike Novosel was one of a kind.

I had the honor to talk with him about twenty years ago at a small cafe his son was starting up. Dropped by in early afternoon to see how things were going for the grand opening that night and he was there. Great small place with an aviation theme. Even the outside had been painted with various aircraft - the Dustoff Huey most prominent.

After introducing myself and my son who was with me, we sat down and over a beer or two traded war stories. Both Mike and I being 'nam vets, there was that instant bond among warriors who had fought together. I covered many a Huey doing insertions and extractions including Dustoff's as well as basic units as you see in "We were soldiers...", plus special ops and SOG Prarie Fire dudes in strange places we couldn't talk about back then......

As expected, he was very humble and had the standard "just doing my job" descriptions of things. I had not read his MoH citation yet. Wow. BTW, he and his son traded "get home" missions.... gotta love it.

I was fascinated that he flew B-29's in WW2. So he was basically about my own father's age. His story of trying to "help" the "cause" during early years of 'nam was great. His version was the U.S. Army would love him as an IP up at Ft Rucker and so he was thinking he would be right here close to home and could drive home on weekends to Ft Walton or wherever he had a place. Uh oh! One day he gets orders. Meanwhile, Mike Jr is going thru the schools and they wind up being assigned to the same unit down in IV Corps. Army had made a mistake and after the infamous Sullivan brother tragedy in the Navy did not put family together.

What a great afternoon, and later that evening I got to sit across from him at the formal part of the cafe dedication. That was a real blow out, as next to him was another MoH recipient - Bud Day of Misty fame, and a student of mine that just got his first star. Needless to say, I felt like a tiny worm in the garden.

Gums sends...