22.09.2011, 15:55
1st Special Operations Squadron Campaign [1966-1969]
The Campaign I am planning will take a USMC Pilot with extensive WW2 and KTO CAS Expertise and have him transferred to work with a special forces group that is shifting their roll to be more closely linked with ground forces. (This did happen in vietnam, and will allow the campaign to be historical while allowing this to be a continuation of the USMC Career Campaign [1943-1969] I'm building up.
While at its initial home base in South Vietnam, Bien Hoa AB, aircrews of the 1st Air Commando Squadron (soon the 1st Special Operations Squadron) performed the first combat tests of the famous FC-47 gunship. At Bien Hoa the primary mission of the 1st SOS was to support US Special Forces and various USMC strongholds along the DMZ (Khe Sanh, Con Tien, and the Rockpile). Its primary mission after the move to the newly paved Pleiku AB was interdiction along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but its pilots and planes also flew cover for pilot rescue missions, and it continued to fly close air support missions for U.S. and Vietnamese ground forces.
![[Image: closeoc.jpg]](http://skyraider.org/skyassn/otherpics/mignard/1sos/closeoc.jpg)
(Note: I did a 1st Air Commando Squadron Campaign* for WW2 that is based on the their actions in the CBI = http://www.mission4today.com/index.php? ... ils&id=721 )
* The USMC Career Campaign [1943-1969] I mentioned isn't connected with the 1st Air Commando Campaign
The Campaign I am planning will take a USMC Pilot with extensive WW2 and KTO CAS Expertise and have him transferred to work with a special forces group that is shifting their roll to be more closely linked with ground forces. (This did happen in vietnam, and will allow the campaign to be historical while allowing this to be a continuation of the USMC Career Campaign [1943-1969] I'm building up.
While at its initial home base in South Vietnam, Bien Hoa AB, aircrews of the 1st Air Commando Squadron (soon the 1st Special Operations Squadron) performed the first combat tests of the famous FC-47 gunship. At Bien Hoa the primary mission of the 1st SOS was to support US Special Forces and various USMC strongholds along the DMZ (Khe Sanh, Con Tien, and the Rockpile). Its primary mission after the move to the newly paved Pleiku AB was interdiction along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but its pilots and planes also flew cover for pilot rescue missions, and it continued to fly close air support missions for U.S. and Vietnamese ground forces.
(Note: I did a 1st Air Commando Squadron Campaign* for WW2 that is based on the their actions in the CBI = http://www.mission4today.com/index.php? ... ils&id=721 )
* The USMC Career Campaign [1943-1969] I mentioned isn't connected with the 1st Air Commando Campaign