USAF 38th Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Service / Detachment 5 / Jolly Green / Maintenance Patch
Hard to find patch, Circa 1967 - Vietnam Made.
The 38th ARRS Det. 5 was based at Tan Son Nhut, flew only HH-43B/Fs, deployed it 32 aircraft on 24-hour alerts at 14 bases in South Vietnam and Thailand. The only exception was 2 CH-3C’s assigned to Det 1, NKP in 1965 as the first “Jolly Green” helicopters in SEA. There's another version that states they were out of Udorn and they had up to 5 or 6 Jolly’s at a time. Folded them into 37th in Jan ‘67. Also, they continued using it at Osan between 1980/85'.
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