Chickenman One-Zero-Deuce

April 3, 2011  5:35 pm in Diaries by Phil Clark

Sometimes you just gotta relax even when you’re in a war zone. And relaxing is a lot easier to do when you have someone around like Larry “Skinny” Spaulding to entertain you. Well, it’s hard to convince Ann-Margret to make a command appearance in the field, so what else is there to do?

Spaulding

Spaulding in 1969

Spaulding 2003

Spaulding in 2003

In this audio clip, recorded during a 2002 telephone conversation, Skinny tells about how he and the pilot of chopper Chickenman 102 used to horse around, and how he acquired a huge respect for that same pilot.