Pacific Stars and Stripes information
for B/7/17 CAV
For date 710120
B/7/17 CAV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Pleiku Province, II Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Camp Holloway
Description: The following is an edited version of an article titled "Just Luck - Not All Bad" .
Pleiku (Special) - You can't tell 1LT Steven Moode of Guttenberg, Iowa, or SP5 Timothy Flood of Stockton, Calif., that lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place. You'd probably have an easier time convincing them that the world is flat or the moon is made out of green cheese. A light observation helicopter pilot with the 17th Combat Aviation Group's B Troop, 7th Sq., 17th Air Cav., Moody was on a reconnaissance mission with Flood as observer, when enemy gunfire downed their aircraft 20 miles southeast of here in the central highlands. The lieutenant successfully landed the crippled copter in dense jungle, without injury or damage to the craft. They were immediately rescued by another helicopter. The following day Moody and Flood returned to the same area. Again while flying their tiny aircraft at tree-top level, enemy gunners took aim and forced the helicopter from the sky. Moody was again forced to make an emergency landing less than 20 meters from the previous day's landing site. Rescue teams the scrambling pilot and observer moments later and again flew them to safety, unharmed.
The source for this information was email from 7/17th Cav dated 12/27/2000
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05/13/2023