Camp Nothing

[Doc_Bob]

A couple of photos of me at the medics station and the helipad at Camp Nothing Hill. It is called Camp Nothing because there is nothing to do there (pretty original?). The helicopter is a UH-60 AKA as a Blackhawk. It is a lift or general utility helicopter. The day was sunny and warm. I flew with the crew of the UH-60 as part of my job as a flight surgeon. And I visited with the medics at Nothing Hill as part of my weekly rounds.
Robert

 

[RedRocker]

Great pix Doc.

 

[tommu56]

Doc_Bob
If you fly in to camp humpheries(sp) in korea my son might be doing the air trafic control. He just left for his second tour over there today and my wife is so up set she wont see him for another year.

tommu56

 

[EddieWalker]

Doc Bob,

Nice pics.

Thank you for your service.

Eddie

USMC 83-88

 

[AlanB]

Nice pics doc, Camp Nothing is a nice place to be beats the heck out of camp lots going on

Thanks for being there.

 

[Jimbrown]

Were you in Kosov? Or are you just a designated unit to go there? Just curious as a retired Army helio pilot and glad I ain't there.

 

[N80]

I'm an ex-USAF doctor. I wasn't a flight surgeon so I didn't get to wear one of those cool flight suits. Got to fly in a lot of stuff (C-17, C-141, Medivac Lear jet type thing) but never got a ride in a Blackhawk. Got to ride in a Huey (Dust Off) several times flying seriously injured personell from Eglin AFB over to Pensacola (great trip by the way, white sand, beaches, etc.) Rode back with doors open, moonlight on the water, legs hanging out the door.

It was a real shock to me when I got deployed to Bosnia back when all that started. The shock was not getting deployed, the shock was that they were sending me into Tusla with a small TALSE (C-17) medical unit and sending the flight surgeon to Germany to coordinate the air evacs. Somehow I just assumed I would be the one sleeping in a hotel in Frankfort while the flight surgeon slept in a tent and used a privy!

Lucky for me I never made it to Tusla. They sent 2 units of med folks and the other unit was a gung-ho light colonel that wanted to go and I was a lowly captain who wanted to go home! I spent a month in Germany and a week tending to the airlift guys using the airport in Budapest. We stayed in a Marriot overlooking the Danube.

In any case, what type of unit are you in Doc? Where are you normally stationed? What else have you gotten to ride in?

 

[Doc_Bob]

Were you in Kosov? Or are you just a designated unit to go there? Just curious as a retired Army helio pilot and glad I ain't there.

Yes, I am in Kosovo. 9,000 foot mountains and the weather reminds me of Midwest weather.
Bob

 

[Doc_Bob]

In any case, what type of unit are you in Doc? Where are you normally stationed? What else have you gotten to ride in?

Task Force Eagle, KFOR 8 (Kosovo Force 8 as in 8 year USA has been at Camp Bondsteel). Only C-130H, UH-1 (HUEY) and UH-60, Blackhawk. I took care of an Apache unit in Korea in 2002, but never got to fly (only two seater). Home is in Wisconsin as the National Guard.
Bob

 

[Doc_Bob]

Doc_Bob
If you fly in to camp humpheries(sp) in korea my son might be doing the air trafic control. He just left for his second tour over there today and my wife is so up set she wont see him for another year.

tommu56

I am in Europe right now, but I visited Humphries (SP??) back in 2002. I was at Camp Page in Korea for awhile.
Bob

 

[Podunkadunk]

Flight Surgeons... the ENEMY, at least in the Navy anyhow.

Camp nothinghill seems to be the equiv. of Massirah, Oman, codenamed Camp wearen'treallyherethisplacedoesn'texistandthereisn'tshiznittodo.

Be safe

 

[Doc_Bob]

Flight Surgeons... the ENEMY, at least in the Navy anyhow.

All aviators lack "trust" in their flight surgeons, because we can "ground" them. Trust is built with time. Once they trust me, they come and see me. Aviation is like small town, word gets around.
Bob

 

[Doc_Bob]

Flight Surgeons... the ENEMY, at least in the Navy anyhow.

I see your home is near Dothan! Mother Rucker! AKA Ft Rucker, home of Army Aviation. Nice area.
Bob

 

[N80]

I think Rucker is where our air evac choppers came from. I never understood that arrangement. Army Hueys coming down to Eglin AFB for air evac flights from our little ER. I think some of it was so that they could get more flight time. In any case, I liked it. We had a requirement that a doc accompany the patient on the flight. The staff docs were never interested so they always tagged us residents. For a resident it was a free ticket out of the hospital AND a chopper ride over the west Florida coast. All good!

 

[Doc_Bob]

The staff docs were never interested so they always tagged us residents. For a resident it was a free ticket out of the hospital AND a chopper ride over the west Florida coast. All good!

I understand completely .
Bob

 

[mjarrels]

If you want to ge away from it all... try Diego Garcia!

mark

 

[Podunkadunk]

If you want to ge away from it all... try Diego Garcia!

mark

Been there, done that...got the t-shirt and the killer tan from being 7 degrees below the earth's "belt". It was our home base on my squadron's '97-98 deployment, basically where all the maintenance and support personnel were. I didn't spend more than a couple weeks at a time there, it was the Shangri-La compared to where we were flying our missions from. "Footprint" of the I.O., I'll never forget Dodge.

Never been anywhere else that had humidity like that...not southern Alabama, the P.I., Indonesia...nowhere...

 

[Podunkadunk]

I see your home is near Dothan! Mother Rucker! AKA Ft Rucker, home of Army Aviation. Nice area.
Bob

Yeah, beautiful little piece of 'Bama.

I am in the flight pattern for Rucker. They are always buzzing the house in their "wop-wops". That's where the wife and I do our commissary shopping.

Didn't mean to stereotype all Flight Surgeons in one of my previous posts. We had good ones and bad ones. Some were on a power trip and would down you for the slightest stuff. Normally, we only saw him when we would go "high time"...Navy speak (don't know if Air Force/Army uses the same terminology or not) for flying too many hours in one 30 day period. For the P-3, it was 120 hours. We did that a lot. Had to go see the Doc when we did.

I would have never thought that you were an ole Flight Doc...that's awesome. "Meet" some interesting people with various backgrounds on this site.

Podunk