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HONORED ON PANEL 7W, LINE 39 OF THE WALL
ROBERT DOUGLAS HAUER
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ROBERT D HAUER
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LEFT FOR ROBERT DOUGLAS HAUER
POSTED ON 6.18.2025
POSTED BY: DAVID THOMPSON
POW/MIA BRACELET DISPLAY - PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM
Dr. Dave Thompson
Palm Springs Air Museum
POW/MIA Bracelet Display Curator
Lt. Commander U.S. Navy 1964-1970
10-103 Lakeview Dr. Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270
760-328-0859 760-464-6843 [email protected]
POSTED ON 3.27.2025
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Final Mission of Capt Robert D. Hauer
POSTED ON 5.29.2023
POSTED BY: Jack Crowley
55th Reunion 2
It hit me during our approach to reunion that I have had a good life since graduation but you were cut so very short.
A golf friend of mine who is also an Air Force pilot summed it up for me - "My F-16 unit was charged with the FAC-A mission, as well as Close Air Support. I assure you that your friend’s ethos burns brightly in our US Air Force combat units. Friday nights in a fighter squadron consisted of 2 sure things:
1. Get really drunk, and
2. Sing (dirty) songs. Many of these songs were about the heroism of FACs in Vietnam.
FACs lived their lives in harms way so our 18-year olds with rifles stood a better chance of returning home to mom and dad. (Some refer to it as “the Lord’s work”) Your friend, Bob/Bubba, dipped back under the weather to take one last look. Doesn’t sound like he needed to…but I’ll bet he knew that doing so could save some good-guy lives in the coming hours/days/weeks.
Sounds like a hero to me, Jack. Raising a glass to Bubba this Memorial Day.
Yes, raising a glass for you, Captain Hauer and I will go out of my way to laugh until the tears come down remembering our good times, but also your heroism.
I will always miss you.
Jack
A golf friend of mine who is also an Air Force pilot summed it up for me - "My F-16 unit was charged with the FAC-A mission, as well as Close Air Support. I assure you that your friend’s ethos burns brightly in our US Air Force combat units. Friday nights in a fighter squadron consisted of 2 sure things:
1. Get really drunk, and
2. Sing (dirty) songs. Many of these songs were about the heroism of FACs in Vietnam.
FACs lived their lives in harms way so our 18-year olds with rifles stood a better chance of returning home to mom and dad. (Some refer to it as “the Lord’s work”) Your friend, Bob/Bubba, dipped back under the weather to take one last look. Doesn’t sound like he needed to…but I’ll bet he knew that doing so could save some good-guy lives in the coming hours/days/weeks.
Sounds like a hero to me, Jack. Raising a glass to Bubba this Memorial Day.
Yes, raising a glass for you, Captain Hauer and I will go out of my way to laugh until the tears come down remembering our good times, but also your heroism.
I will always miss you.
Jack
POSTED ON 5.29.2023
POSTED BY: Jack Crowley
This week is our 55th College Reunion
I miss you to this day, Bob. We were both from Brookline, MA and we loved football, but in our college days the rising of BC basketball under Head Coach Bob Cousy was our king. We were best friends in college.
We both had healthy senses of humor, and we coped with the craziness of the 60’s by trying to introduce levity into serious matters. But, of course, that was virtually impossible.
Both facing the Draft, you joined the Air Force and became a Forward Air Control Pilot (FAC) in Vietnam and I joined the Army, trained at Fort Dix NJ and Infantry OCS at Ft. Benning (now Ft. Moore), GA eventually being (by luck of the draw) assigned as a 1st Lieutenant to the 7th Infantry Division, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Camp Casey, Tongduchon (TDC) [Dongducheon], South Korea, commanded by Major General Harold G. (Hal) Moore himself ("We Were Soldiers Once, and Young" - Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam). I was not in harm's way during my tour like you were.
When I learned you were MIA in September 1970, my Air Force (Vietnam Vets) pilot friends at Camp Casey informed me at the time that Air Force Intelligence indicated that your plane was shot down and seen plummeting into triple canopy jungle with no beeper detected, nor parachute observed.
How very sad and heartbreaking. You were and still are a true hero.
We both had healthy senses of humor, and we coped with the craziness of the 60’s by trying to introduce levity into serious matters. But, of course, that was virtually impossible.
Both facing the Draft, you joined the Air Force and became a Forward Air Control Pilot (FAC) in Vietnam and I joined the Army, trained at Fort Dix NJ and Infantry OCS at Ft. Benning (now Ft. Moore), GA eventually being (by luck of the draw) assigned as a 1st Lieutenant to the 7th Infantry Division, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Camp Casey, Tongduchon (TDC) [Dongducheon], South Korea, commanded by Major General Harold G. (Hal) Moore himself ("We Were Soldiers Once, and Young" - Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam). I was not in harm's way during my tour like you were.
When I learned you were MIA in September 1970, my Air Force (Vietnam Vets) pilot friends at Camp Casey informed me at the time that Air Force Intelligence indicated that your plane was shot down and seen plummeting into triple canopy jungle with no beeper detected, nor parachute observed.
How very sad and heartbreaking. You were and still are a true hero.