THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. It remains my fervent hope you will be returned home after the passage of so many years.

Dear Maj Robert Williams, Thank you for your service as a Rotary Wing Aviation Unit Commander - Helicopter Pilot with the 1st Cavalry. You are still MIA. Please come home. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. You are remembered. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Be at peace.

Never forget.

HOOAH

One evening while on guard duty out on the perimeter, a cobra appeared and was looking for people in the wire. He hovered the bird at what appeared the be 90 degrees to the ground. He walked the cobra up and down the perimeter with a big light and a minigun. I didn't know Bob but we shared a basecamp together. He was F/79 Air Artillery "BL UE MAX" and I was with the 146th Aviation Co (RR) across the runway.

Major Williams was Captain Williams when I first met him at the 5th Aviation Detachment in Vung Tau, RVN. He was an Instructor Pilot flying the AH1-G Cobra gunship. Major Williams always had a smile on his face and said nothing bad about anyone, that I know of, and we became friends. I was a young 19 year old Crewchief at the time. It was a small unit of only 65 men. During February of 1972 our Detachment stood-down and we were all assigned to new units. Rest in peace my friend.