18th Aviation Company Otter Nest
You call We Haul You All, Low Slow and Reliable, Still Flying.
Chapter 10 - Unit Patches
18th Aviation Company (FWLT)
1962 - 1971
Fort Riley, Kansas
1959 - 1962
5th US Army
1959 - 1962
71st Transportation Battalion
1959 - 1962
Vietnam
1962 - 1971
Military Assistance Command - Vietnam
1962 - 1971
1st Aviation Brigade
1966 - 1971
12th Aviation Group
1962 - 1966
45th Aviation Battalion
1962 - 1963
52nd Combat Aviation Battalion
1963 - 1964
14th Aviation Battalion
1964 - 1966
17th Aviation Group
1966 - 1971
223rd Aviation Battalion
1966 - 1971
The following patch is the original patch of the 18th Aviation Company and was designed at Fort Riley Kansas by Capt. Carl Yoder, Capt. George Baker, and Capt. Rubeum Black on that afternoon in the summer of 1959.
(This may have been a locally procured patch, however there is no record of this patch at the Institute of Heraldry.)
(This may have been a locally procured patch, however there is no record of this patch at the Institute of Heraldry.)
Here are some of unit crests worn by members of the 18th Aviation Company in Vietnam and should be familiar to everyone who wore them:
1st Aviation Brigade
1966 - 1971
12th Aviation Group
17th Aviation Group
45th Aviation Battalion Crest
52nd Combat Aviation Battalion Crest
14th Aviation Battalion Crest
223rd Aviation Battalion Crest
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