More detail on this person: This is to update
your records. My father, Frank R. Meegan retired
as a LTC in 1980 at the Presidio in San Francisco.
He served two tours in Vietnam as a Helicopter
Pilot. His first tour was with the 11th Test
Aviation Group which became the 1st Air Cav. He
was a Captain when he went to Vietnam in Sept of
1965 and returned around October of 1966. He was
with the 147th Aviation group called the
"Hillclimbers". He was an Instructor Pilot for
the Huey and several other helicopter types. My
mother said that he trained a lot of the pilots
who were on their way to Vietnam. In the fall of
1968, he went over to Vietnam again with the
7/17th Air Cav in Pleiku. He was there for 6
months as a Major and went to take over the
command of the 147th Aviation group during his
second 6 months in Vietnam.
My dad died on Valentines Day in 1982. The
official date was listed as Feb 15th, because the
doctors had his body waiting for my brother and
myself to come see him one more time before they
took his body away. That was a little after
midnight, so they listed it as Feb 15th. We had
been with him all day, except for some time in the
evening on Feb. 14th.
My father had developed Leukemia. I think the
Doctors at Letterman Army Hospital had found
something wrong with him the year before he
retired, because they quarantined him for about a
week. They lost his medical records for that
period of time. The doctors found his Leukemia
about 6 - 10 months after he retired from the Army
in January of 1980.
We were living in Fairfield, CA when my dad died.
He actually died while he was in Letterman Army
Hospital in San Francisco on the 14th of Feb. He
is buried at the Presidio Cemetery in San
Francisco.
From: Bryan Meegan
Burial information: Presidio Cemetery, San Francisco, CA
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