Have you heard of the Aerial Port Mobility Operations "The 8th MOB" aka Aerial Port Mobility Team (AMT)?

Have you heard of the Aerial Port Mobility Operations "The 8th MOB" aka Aerial Port Mobility Team (AMT)?

We, the men of 8th MOB salute you who carry on the tradition of the original 8th Aerial Port MOB in the Mobility Airlift Command Units of today's United States Air Force.

Check out their site and awesome history - one of very own is part of that group TSgt Christopher K. Hartley

http://songbe.8thmob.org/NEW/Index.html

HOME OF "THE FLYING FORKLIFTS"

an integral part of Tactical Airlift in Vietnam, 1965-1975
(III Corps & IV Corps)

This site is also just as much about all those of the 8th, 14th, and 15th Aerial Port Squadrons and their Dets and OLs. Because, called out from those very units, was a very unique group, all volunteers (and since not all volunteers were accepted), many times these individuals were chosen to join by other MOB Team Members themselves. They, those selected volunteers, came to be known as...

"The Chosen Few"

"These guys were airmen living a soldier's life at remote air strips deep in the VC-infested jungle... " "Some of us saw more than the average Air Force guy" - Mike Warren '68-70



SFC Mark Merino SGM Steve Wettstein CH (MAJ) William Beaver PVT James Strait CSM Michael J. Uhlig MAJ Ken Landgren CPT Jack Durish PO1 John Miller SN Greg Wright Sgt Kelli Mays TSgt Julia Faulks] SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Hunter Logan SGT Sara Hodgkiss CPT (Join to see) MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"SGT Ben Keen