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Welcome to the US Air Force's
7 Direct Air Support Flights
(DASF)
Years of operation = 1964 ~ 1976


Primarily deployed in South Vietnam and on the Korean DMZ
DASF Flights were located all around the Pacific.

 

Today's Flash Patch for the ROMAD's / TACP's
 

This is a very unique AFSC (Army = MOS).
Radio Operator, Maintenance And Driver (ROMAD) or
Recon, Observe, Mark, And Destroy (ROMAD).
Today known as a Tactical Air Control Party (TACP).

Primary AFSC was 304X4 - Radio Maintenance
with many other AFSC's recruited from 1965-1976.

Today, this TACP's AFSC is now know as 1C4X

 

USAF ROMAD / TACP Beret

TACP Flash Patch as worn on the USAF Black Beret.

 

HOW TO NAVIGATE THIS WEB SITE.

YOU MUST USE YOUR BROWSERS BACK ARROW.

 

IMPORTANT

We use this icon  " "   to move you around to the various sections of this website. Please click on it to  "GO"  to that location.  Again, you must use your browsers back arrow to return to where you were.
 

 

 

  

Patch Hat Pin

The Original 1965 Style Korean Tiger Patches
and Pins are now available again in the USA

  To order     here

 

 

 

A Special Video Presentation

The First Vietnam Veterans National Memorial
Located in Angel Fire,  New Mexico, USA
Founded in 1968, Dedicated in 1971.

    To this video presentation and it's history.

 

Please visit this new memorial in honor of All Tactical Air Control Party Personnel ~ both past and present

To see the entire collection of pictures taken, please click on the 
 

 

 

 

ROMAD's - We Need Your Help

 


    This is the Research and History Pages on the Direct Air Support Flights.

This includes correspondence with the
USAF Archives
and comments from:

Tom Brenham
Harold Goldman
Labon Bumphus

Plus emails comments
sent in to this website.
 

 

ALSO

Two very good Yahoo Groups concerning the FAC and ROMAD's.

They are the FAC_TASS and FACNET groups.

Check out these groups.
You might find some guys you are looking for.

 


Next Reunion Information

  The Vietnam era ROMAD's and the current Active Duty
ROMAD's are planning to hold their next reunion together.
  The location and date of this reunion will be announced
on both the AFDASF.ORG and ROMAD.COM websites.

Pictures from the 2008 ROMAD Reunion are found on this link.

 


F A C   REUNION  2010
Fort Worth, TX
October 27-31, 2010

 


 

Important

  Please ENTER or UPDATE your information in the
DASF / ROMAD
PERSONNEL DATABASE file.
 


 

The current database minus some contact information is on line.
The full listing is available by contacting me.

    Database Listing updated on Feb. 8, 2010.

 


If You Would Like A Copy Of This Database in PDF format, then:

1. You must have your information in this database proving you were / are a ROMAD.
2. Please email me at
romad@charter.net to request this file.
3. Active Duty ROMAD's have a choice of releasing their information.

Robin
Webmaster

 

 

All pictures are copyrighted by the owner,
but may be used without permission
IF
you provide the following information with the photo:
Full credit to those persons who took the picture
and a link to this web site.

Please book mark this page only.
All other pages are subject to be moved around.

Thank you for your co-operation

 

Below are the 7 different Direct Air Support Flights,
each consisted of about 10 officers and 19 enlisted men combined
for a total of about 29 men to make up a ROMAD / TACP / FAC teams. 
This total is minus motor pool, power, office personnel etc..
 

All DASF units were deactivated on September 15, 1968
and became part of the 604th DASS, in Hawaii.

The 604th DASS was deactivated on May 17, 1976.

 


 

 

The DASF's Pages

 

 

   1st DASF Page
1st DASF Startup Roster now on line

     Airman Vince Green's pictures
 

 

    2nd DASF Page

    Airman Wood's Korean Pictures
 

 

     3rd DASF Page

     Jim Donaldson Pictures

  Phillip De Mars Overseas Orders

 

 

  4th DASF Page

   Captain Burt Blatter's Pictures               
Both Korea and Vietnam 

         Airman Robert Michael's Pictures              
Ragged Scooper 2 Alpha, Vietnam
 Plus my Korean Pictures

        Airman Gary Grubb's Korean Pictures               

    

 

     5th DASF Page

  Airman Joe Trexler's Vietnam Pictures
 

 

   6th DASF Page

 

    7th DASF Page
Changed into the 604th DASS

 

 

ROMAD / TACP and Map Links

 

 

603rd DASS Page

   Airman Steven Bowens Pictures
 

   MSgt Mike "Harpo" Humphrey, USAF Ret.
Original Pack Rat / ROMAD, GP #3
ROK Tiger Div, CAV REG, Vietnam 1967-68
A nice brief description of how I became a ROMAD.

  Mike's pictures in 5 groups  

 

The following links below have the actual link address shown.
Please click on this link.


 

 

in Vietnam and Thailand, 1962 ~ 1975
This site contains the following groups:

505th TCG
619th TCS
620th TCS
621st TCS
507th TAG
5th TCG
Plus a lot of very useful information on the FAC's,
Pack Rats, Dustoffs, plus other support organizations

 

 

This is the Active Duty ROMAD site.
http://www.romad.com/index.php

The Vietnam era ROMAD's and the current active duty ROMAD's are planning to hold their next reunion together. The location and date of this reunion will be announced on both the WWW.AFDASF.ORG and WWW.ROMAD.COM websites.


This site is set up and run by Charlie Heidal  for use by the CURRENT ROMAD's and TACP teams's that are on ACTIVE DUTY in the USAFSeveral areas are off limits to non active duty service people since these men are overseas fighting in the major conflicts, but most of the site is not pass word protected.  He has a lot of excellent information on today's ROMAD's including the schools and training that are required to become a ROMAD.  This includes all of the training that one must under go, plus the duty they perform. If you are a ex-ROMAD and wish to contact Charlie for access to the full site follow the rules on his page to get your login and password.

 



The Korean Vietnam Veterans Web Site in South Korea

http://www.vietvet.co.kr
There is both a Korean AND  English sections on this link.
Feel free to visit and ask any question that you might have.
You will get a prompt answer to you question in English.

 

Vietnam War Resources

A excellent listing of almost all of the combat operations
within Vietnam.  This listing is a must if you are doing any research.

This resource is from the Georgia Tech Research Library

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/Vietnam.html

 

Another very good site to visit and discuss or search for others.

www.1anglico.org/forums
 

The Map Section.

All Maps are at 1:250,000
resolution or scale.

That means big and the files
are very large to download.

HIGH SPEED REQUIRED

 

 

The Vietnam War

Area Of Operations 1965 - 1975
Map Scale is 1:250,000
Remember, these maps are big.

Welcome to Jim Henthorn's Vietnam Vet Page!

Preliminary Map Scanning Completed as of 10/30/2001.

Indexing of place names is not complete. "I'll be adding vintage maps of the remaining areas of Thailand in the near future as I get them done!"  Please note that this is a very large site and the maps of Vietnam are very detailed thus they are large files to download.   This is still a work in progress and will be for many years to come. These maps are excellent for detailed research of / on the war.  Yes, these maps are printable if your have a large enough printer and paper - Min Size should be 11" X 17" to properly print out.

http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/sea-ao.html
 

 

 

Ray's Map Room
Vietnam Areas of Operation
Topographic Digital Map Images
Scale is 1:250,000

Ray has added to Jim Henthorn's maps many key places, battles and other important points concerning this war.  Each point of interest will have a orange diamond marker on the map. This diamond when clicked on will produce a pop up with pictures and a written history for this location.  This has been very well done and is a work still in progress.....

http://www.rjsmith.com/topo_map.html
 

 

This site is a member of WebRing.
To browse visit Here.

 
This is an Unofficial Site for the DASF Units, prepared and maintained by a U.S. Air Force Veteran whom was a member of the 4th DASF Unit. It is not in any way sponsored by, approved by, or otherwise sanctioned by the United States Air Force.

If you experience difficulties with this site or you have information related to this site that you wish to contribute, please email to romad@charter.net.

© Copyright, 1996-2009
by
Robin Michael
ROMAD
 Ragged Scooper 2 Alpha