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• Category: Admin
  • Inventory management and shipping policies
  • Roster info available to signed-in members
  • Joining and accessing members-only content
  • Official Corporate Address
  • HMM-265 Veterans Association History
  • Coordinating a Reunion
  • Join Us Application Form
  • Association Leadership
  • Corporate Documents
  • Contact Us
  • Need Contact-Info Update
  • Category: Corporate Documents
    • By-Laws (Revised 15 May 19)
    • By-Laws (Established 23 Oct 06)
    • Certificate of Formation
    • IRS Determination Letter HMM-265
    • Texas Certificate of Filing
    • Permission to Use Name ‘Veterans’
    • Category: Minutes
      • 2017 Minutes
      • 2015 Minutes
    • Category: Other Board Actions
      • Neal Purdue Elected to BOD
  • Category: Squadron History
    • Wedding Fly-In Nov 1963
    • History of Individual CH-46s
    • HMM-265 COs
    • History of HMM-265
• Category: Archives
  • President’s Corner
  • Category: Misc
    • High Flight/Low Flight
  • Category: Old News
    • Lucky Gunner, March 21, 1969
    • Nominating Committee 2019
    • Downed Vietnam pilot rescues
    • Another update on Fred Allega
    • HMM-265 Veterans Association Plaque at National Museum of USMC
    • Lest We Forget: The Mission
    • VN helo crew monument dedication update
    • Addendum to VN helo crew monument dedication
    • New Director
    • Captain John A. “Jack” House II (KIA)
    • Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and Crewmember Monument Dedication Ceremony
    • Director Vacancy
    • Help for John Moth 1968
    • Creating and Posting Remembrances
    • Need picture of MSgt Howard Strouse, KIA 10-6-66
    • Phrogs Phorever…
  • Category: Past Reunions
    • Category: 2012 Reunion San Diego
      • 2012 San Diego Reunion Pics
      • CG 1st MAW Reunion 2012 Letter
      • 2012 Reunion Slideshow
      • 2012 Reunion Commandant Message
      • 2012 Minutes
      • 2012 Shareholder Meeting Agenda
      • 2012 Reunion Save The Date 2012
    • Category: 2013 Reunion Charleston
      • 2013 Charleston Reunion Pictures
      • 2013 Reunion Attendees
      • 2013 Reunion After Action
      • 2013 Reunion Registration
      • 2013 Reunion Itinerary
    • Category: 2014 Mini Reunion Savannah
      • 2014 Mini-Reunion Attendees
      • 2014 Mini-Reunion Report
    • Category: 2015 Reunion
      • 2015 Reunion Registration Form
      • 2015 Reunion Memo
      • President’s Letter-2015 Reunion Cruise
    • Category: 2017 Reunion San Francisco
      • 2017 San Francisco Reunion Pics
      • 2017 Sonoma Valley Wine Tour
      • Reunion 2017 Attendees as of 22 Feb
      • PC 15 Jan 2017-Reunion update
      • 2017 Reunion Registration Form
      • 2017 Reunion Package
      • PC – Reunion 2017 site selection
    • Category: 2018 Mini-Reunion Savannah
      • Registration Deadline Looming
      • 2018 Savannah Attendees to Date
      • 2018 Mini-Reunion Registration
      • 2018 Mini-reunion warning order
    • Category: 2019 Reunion Branson
      • 2019 Branson Photos
      • 2019 Treasurer’s Report
      • Event Schedule for Branson Reunion
      • Resignation Letter
      • Branson Registrations as of 1 Oct 2019 (65)
      • Registration form 2019 reunion
      • Registration letter 2019 reunion
      • Banquet Menu for 2019 reunion
      • 2019 Change in Reunion Location
    • Category: 2021 Reunion NOLA
      • 2021 Reunion Pics Posted
      • NOLA Update 10 Sep 2021
      • NOLA 2021 Registrations as of October 9, 2021
      • 2021 Reunion Registration Form
      • 2021 Reunion Schedule
      • 2021 Reunion Announcement Letter
      • Tentative Schedule for NOLA
      • 2021 Banquet Menu
      • 2021 Reunion Registration Package
      • 2021 NOLA Links
      • 2021 NOLA Hotel Reservations
    • Category: 2023 Reunion Tucson
      • 2023 Tucson Reunion Registration Letter
      • 2023 Tucson Reunion Registration Form
      • 2023 Tucson Schedule of Events
      • 2023 Tucson Reunion Registration Package
      • 2023 Reunion Registration Form
      • Update Feb 2023
      • 2023 Reunion Hotel Registration Information
      • 2023 Reunion Warning Order
      • 2023 Reunion Venue: It’s Tucson!
      • 2023 Venue Preference Survey Results
      • 2023 Venue Preference Survey
    • Category: Pre-2012 Reunions
      • Pre-2012 Reunions
  • Category: President's Corner
    • President’s Corner Feb 2024: Three things . . .
    • Reunion NOLA 2021 Warning Order
    • President’s Corner 19 Mar 2019
    • President’s Corner 27 Nov 2018
    • President’s Corner Aug 2018: Branson Selected for Reunion 2019, 30 Sep-4 Oct
    • President’s Corner June 2017
    • President’s Corner – Dec 2015
• Category: Galleries
  • LtCol Ritter post-RTB tidbits
  • More pics from LtCol Ritter, first CO of HMM-265
  • Pics from LtCol Ritter years
  • HMM-265 Officer Photo-Early 1965
  • 2021 NOLA Reunion Photos
  • 2021 VMM-265
  • 1966-67 Marion Sturkey’s Vietnam Pics
  • 1966-67 Wayne Shaw Combat Art
  • 1966 Operation Hastings Gallery
  • 1960-68 Early days at Boeing plant in Morton, PA
  • 2018 Da Nang Visit-Bill Waterbury
  • 1968-69 RVN Pics Larry Crist
  • 1965 Officer Photo-Early ’65
  • 2015 Phrog Retirement Pics
  • Submitting Photos
• Category: Home
  • Archives by Month
  • Category: Mdse Sales
    • Current memorabilia inventory
    • Squadron Memorabilia Catalog
• Category: Links
  • Beetle Bailey circa 1968
  • Military History Links
  • Million Veteran Program (MVP)
  • The Wall That Heals
  • HMM-265 & VMM-265 Facebook pages
  • Camp Lejeune-New River water contamination: A first-person report
  • Military and Veterans’ Associations
  • Distinguished Flying Cross Society
  • Posting Links on Website
  • Veterans’ Issues Links
  • Other Military-Related Links
  • Vietnam Links
  • Military History Links
• Category: LtCol Leland C. Ritter, first CO of HMM-265
  • LtCol Lee Ritter on WWII and Korea
  • LtCol Ritter celebration of life
  • RTB LtCol Leland C. Ritter, USMC (Ret)
  • LtCol Leland C. Ritter Obituary
  • Discussion of early days at New River under LtCol Ritter
  • Early days: New River under Lt.Col. Ritter
• Category: Members Only
  • Membership Master Roster
  • About “Personal Updates” discussion board topic
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• Category: Membership
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  • About “Members” Feature
• Category: Next Reunion
  • 2025 San Antonio Hotel Letter
• Category: Pictures
  • We Now Can Post Videos
• Category: Remembrances
  • RTB William G. Cihak, DDS
  • Remembering Bob Mills, by John Long
  • Remembering Huey Walsh, by Arnie Reiner
  • Remembering Tim Bastyr, by John Long
  • Remembering Frank Durbin, by Chuck Johnson
  • Remembering George Diacont, by Arnie Reiner
  • A Day at Khe Sanh, by (then) 1stLt Arnold Reiner
  • RTB Details
  • Rollo Langenfeld Addendum, by John Long
  • Remembering Rollo Langenfeld, by Chuck Johnson
  • Category: Operation Hastings
    • First day of Operation Hastings, by John Long
    • First Day of Operation Hastings, by Chuck Johnson
    • First day of Operation Hastings, by Tim Bastyr (RTB)
• Category: RTB
  • RTB Clarence Stoel
  • Remembering Bob Mills, by Chuck Johnson
  • RTB LtCol James M. “Jim” Schmidt
  • RTB Reminder
  • RTB List
  • Category: RTB Details
    • RTB James M. “Jim” Lesniak
    • RTB Harry R. “Bob” Mills
    • RTB Huey C. Walsh
    • RTB Preston E. Hicks
    • RTB Daniel D. Dulude
    • RTB Loren Edward Brand
    • RTB Major Ray Smith
    • RTB John W. “Big John” Alber
    • RTB 1stLt. William T. “Billy” Hale
    • RTB George H. Diacont
    • RTB Timothy M. ‘Tim’ Bastyr
    • RTB Brian W. “Moose” Rolfe
    • RTB Lt Gen Charles H. “Chuck” Pitman
    • RTB John “Ace” Hunt
    • RTB Roger Thomas Shea, III (Tom)
    • RTB Steve Turner
    • RTB Joe Roberts
    • RTB Dean A. Rogers
    • RTB Major General Gregory A. Corliss
    • RTB Major Leo J. Farrell, USMC (Retired)
    • RTB Thomas Christopher (Tom, T.C.) McAllister
    • RTB Douglas L. Cameron
    • RTB Lt. Col. William L. “Larry” Whelan
    • RTB CWO-2 Richard (Dick) Tyler
    • RTB SSgt. E. F. Durbin
    • RTB Lt.Col. Richard H. Duff, Jr. RTB
    • RTB Major John Turner Maxwell, Jr
    • RTB Lt.Col. John L. Driefer
    • RTB Colonel Herbert E. “Herb” Mendenhall, CO, HMM-265, 1965-1966
    • RTB Major Richard H. (Rollo, Dick) Langenfeld
    • RTB Emmitt Eugene “Fat Jack” Exum
    • RTB Lt. Col Abraham “Abe” Wolson
• Category: Uncategorized
  • RTB Paul R. O’Neill
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Products

• 9. Donation
• 3. Polo Shirt (with pocket)
• 2. Polo Shirt (without pocket)
• 7. Challenge Coin
• 8. Lapel Pin
• 1. T-Shirt
• 4. Ball Cap, Tan w/ Green Bill
• 6. Coffee Mug
• 5. Ball Cap, Nantucket Red

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Picture tag

• $10. (U.S. quarter shown for relative size)
• $15
• $15 plus $3 upcharge for XXL and XXXL. Colors: Sand
• $20 plus $3 upcharge for XXL and XXXL. Colors: Sand
• $20.
• $25 plus size pucharge
• $5. (U.S. quarter shown for relative size)
• 12 Jun 1966)
• 15 Nov 1966)
• 1966)
• 1986)
• 1st MAW
• 2020. [USMC photo LCpl Hannah Hall]
• 2021
• 24 Oct 1966)
• 246th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps
• 26 Jul 1966
• 27 Sep 1966
• 28 Jun 1966)
• 4 Dec 1966)
• 4 Nov 1966
• 9 Oct 1966)
• ?
• ? [Photo: Claire Benckenstein]
• adjustable size
• Aug. 18
• Ball Cap
• Bell AH-1 Cobra static display Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Bob Basye presiding at business meeting (standing). Seated: Steve Benckenstein
• Bob Mills [Photo: Jean Johnson]
• Cascille and Arnie Reiner [Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• Cascille Reiner
• Cascille Reiner [Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• Cascille Reiner's hair [Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• CH-46 carrying 105mm howitzer (pen and ink sketch
• CH-46 delivering 105 mm howitzer near runway (watercolor
• CH-46 dropping parachutists (watercolor
• CH-46 flying low near civilians on road (watercolor
• CH-46 high above Perfume River heading home to Marble Mountain (watercolor
• CH-46 holding single-wheel touchdown to load/unload (watercolor
• CH-46 in hard turn above boats (watercolor
• CH-46 in rice paddy loading wounded with bullet splashes all around
• CH-46 landing on carrier (watercolor)
• CH-46 lifting from carrier (pen and ink sketch
• CH-46 low near palace (watercolor
• CH-46 unloading troops in paddy with napalm in background (watercolor
• CH-46s lifting from USS Okinawa (LPH-3) with flight of four overhead (watercolor
• CH-53E at Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Challenge coin with HMM-265 logo and USMC logo on reverse
• Chuck Johnson
• Claire Benckenstein
• Coffee mug with HMM-265 logo and "Semper Fi!!" on reverse
• Don Duszyunski
• Donna Upshaw
• First row: Trevor Sellers
• Flight line during Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Flight of four CH-46s (pen and ink sketch
• Forest Green
• Gary Kerr (head only)
• Gary Kerr's head
• Gold
• Gordo Tubesing [Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• Huey gunship circling burning building (watercolor)
• Japan
• Jean Johnson [Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• John Caldwell
• John Caldwell {Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• John Long
• John Long [Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• John Winter
• Just for fun . . . WW-I Boeing F4B3
• Just for fun . . . WW-II and Korea Corsairs
• Kadena Air Base
• Lapel pin with HMM-265 logo
• Maintenance hangar during Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Marie Lyman
• Marie Nelson [Photo: Arnie Reiner]
• Marilyn Moore
• Marines with 3d MEB board an MV-22B Osprey with VMM-265
• Mark Patton
• Marquetta Tubesing
• Mary Long
• Mary Long [Photo: Jean Johnson]
• Mini-airshow at Kadena Nov 5
• Moose Rolfe [Photo: Jean Johnson]
• Nantucket Red with HMM-265 Logo (not shown)
• Night vision demo Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Nov 10
• Okinawa
• On/off drills Nov 5
• On/Off drills with Japanese at Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Opening ceremony at Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Passenger briefing at Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• Polo shirt with HMM-265 logo
• Ralph Nelson
• Royal Blue
• Royal Blue. Also available with pocket on left and logo in right
• Sam Rath
• same colors.
• Seated: Caroline Rolfe
• Standing: Bob Basye Seated: Steve Benckenstein
• tan with green bill and HMM-265 logo
• Tee-shirt included in Tucson registration fee. Available with HMM-265 logo only
• Terry Durbin
• True Red
• Twila Mills
• Two 46s above large home (watercolor
• Two CH-46s above jagged mountain peaks (charcoal
• V-22 Osprey at Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• V-22 Osprey debarkation drill Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• V-22 Osprey deck landing Nov 5
• V-22 Osprey dusty landing Nov 5
• V-22 Osprey static display Kadena mini-airshow Nov 5
• [Photo: Bob Basye]