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I know this is an old post but I just found it while looking for pix of OH-6A's. I was the Outcast platoon sergeant for a 1.5 years from 70-72. After reading about "clipping in" the M-16 I must say we never did that. It just layed there. You didn't have to worry about losing anything in a turn, wingover, etc because of centrifugal forces. You may also be interested to know that we carried our own bombs. They were made of "mostly" 2 sticks of c4 taped together with "usually" a concussion grenade. I use the term “mostly” and “usually” as this bombs were made by the crews and the imagination was the limit. We made some really big stuff. LOL The bombs were carried in wooden boxes and numbered anywhere from 20 to 60 bombs.
Thank you very much for your information, because I,m very interested in first hand reports about Outcasts in 1972.
I have some accounts from Hugh Mills about colours of inside the cockpit and other details of the Oh-6a, but I need some information about the crew of Darkhorse 19 about mid 1972.
As mister Mills told me, the pilot in the picture was Tim Kolberg, but I found no tracks about mister Kolberg, so I know nothing about the helmet art of the pilot we can imagine in the picture.
So please, do you know something about the pilot of Darkhorse 19 in the picture about, and about his helmet art, and about the helmet art of his observer/gunner ???? I´m trying to found this information 5 years ago, but with no results till now...
By the way, there is a very good decals about Outcast birds from Fireworks models 1/35 scale.
Thank you very much in advance...
P.S. The Oh-6a I´m doing is for a big diorama... it´s in progress and looks something like these
