Welcome to the home of the 183rd SeaHorses!

This site is dedicated to members of the 1st Aviation Brigade, 10 CAB, 183rd Sea Horses RAC. The 183rd Aviation Company operated out of Nha Trang, Dong Ba Thin, Phan Rang, Bao Loc, Dalat, Ban Me Thout, Gia Nhia and Phan Thiet. 

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 2010 Reunion Information

I am extremely pleased to announce the 2010 Reunion will be held at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado over the extended weekend of September 9 thru September 12, 2010. This facility is a four star resort that offers many activities and extraordinary facilities. We have a very favorable reunion room rate for the reunion of $88 per night. This rate also applies to the three days prior and three days after the reunion for those of you who wish to enjoy the Colorado Mountains, the many sites and experiences offered at the resort beyond the reunion dates. The Resort has also waived their usual their normal Facilities Service Charge. For a preview of what you will be experiencing at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort, go to their website at www.cheyennemountain.com. The images that you see on this email are of the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.

In the next few weeks you will be receiving a Pikes Peak Area Visitors Guide from the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau that will give you an idea of the many sites and activities available in the Colorado Springs area. In addition, you can visit the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau website at www.coloradosprings-travel.com.

As in the past, there are two registrations that you need to complete before the reunion. The first is the reservation with the Cheyenne Mountain Resort. You should contact Cheyenne Mountain Resort by phone as soon as possible to make your reservation. You can cancel your reservation with Cheyenne Mountain Resort up to 48 hours in advance of your check in without penalty. By making your reservation now you insure that you receive the discounted room rate of $88 per night for either single or double occupancy and more importantly, you help the Committee and the Resort in planning a great reunion. There is no guarantee that you will get the $88 rate after 75 rooms have been reserved by our group. If we get the 75 rooms reserved early in 2010, we are in a much better position to negotiate more rooms at that rate. To make your reservation and get our reunion rate, call (800)428-8886 and tell the reservationist that you want to reserve a room for the 183rd Aviation Company Reunion. The Resort’s online reservation service will not work for reunion rates.

The second registration will be for Seahorse Reunion Activities which will include dinners or banquets, activities and souvenirs, etc. Since we are still in the planning stage, you do not need to complete your Seahorse Reunion Activities at this time. Watch for the upcoming Newsletter for more information on this item.

Now there are a few things that I want you to know or that I would like to know from you.

First, through a very generous benefactor, we are finally going to be able to do a video history of the 183rd at the Reunion. All of the production of this video will be at no cost to the 183rd. The process will involve any veterans who wish to be interviewed and record their important recollections of their tour in Vietnam. We will be sending you a lot more information on this process as we prepare for the reunion. Depending on our time limitations, we may also extend the interview to spouses. This video will be made available to all that participate and become part of our history that is housed at the Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

Secondly, we are very interested in having as many veterans of other Bird Dog Units who served in Vietnam attend and encourage you to invite guys that you know from other units to attend and be part of an All Vietnam Bird Dog Reunion hosted by the 183rd. In the past we have had representatives of the 219th, 74th, 73rd, 220th, 221st, 185th, 1st Cav, and perhaps others that I cannot recall. We encourage their attendance as it makes a much richer experience for all of us and we hope that they will have a reunion within our reunion. I will be sending invitations to the contacts that I have with all of these units.

Third, Cheyenne Mountain Resort has a golf course that is part of their facility. This offers us a unique opportunity that we have not had in the past. If there is enough interest in a reunion golf outing we will plan one for those interested. Please send me an email telling me if you are interested in a golf outing and if so should we plan it for Wednesday September 8th ( a day before the other reunion activities begin ) or Thursday September 9th ( the first day of the reunion).
I have already been told by some of the Committee members that they would be manning the 19th hole.

Fourth and most importantly, make your reservation now.

You will be receiving a lot more information about the reunion over the next few months, but if you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Natalie and I will be looking forward to seeing each one of you in September at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.

John

ATTENTION

If you subscribe to Vietnam Magazine there is an artical on Page 17, of the June 2009 issue. One of our brothers, Cpt. Donald Tyler wrote an article titled, "The Night I Died in My Bird Dog".

Reunion Committee Members:

A special thanks to all the Committee members, their spouses and their teams for assisting in putting together a well organized and moving reunion!

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