{"id":4169,"date":"2018-02-22T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/?page_id=4169"},"modified":"2022-10-23T08:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T01:54:33","slug":"cw4-william-edgar-bill-kelbaugh-1946-1018-2018-0218","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/?page_id=4169","title":{"rendered":"CW4 William Edgar (Bill) Kelbaugh (Ret) &#8211; 18 Oct 1946  -18 Feb  2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arlington-TAPS.wav\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bill graduated from University High School in Columbia, South Carolina and University Of South Carolina.&nbsp; He completed Army Aviation Rotary Wing&nbsp; School Feb 1967 and MOI, at Fort Stewart, Georgia in 1968. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; From March of 1967 to March 1968 he served with the 48th Assault Helicopter Company (Blue Stars) in Viet Nam as a Slick Pilot flying 1150 combat hours. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4171\" src=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bill-Kelbaugh-0001-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bill-Kelbaugh-0001-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bill-Kelbaugh-0001.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; After Vietnam, Bill joined the SC National Guard where he was a flight instructor and retired after 22 years total with 4,500 flight hours.&nbsp; He joined the 51st Assault Helicopter Company in St. Matthews in May of 1970 rated in the OH-13, CH-34 and UH-1 aircraft.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4172\" src=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bill-Kelbaugh-0002-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bill-Kelbaugh-0002-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bill-Kelbaugh-0002.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; He retired in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bill graduated from University High School in Columbia, South Carolina and University Of South Carolina.&nbsp; He completed Army Aviation Rotary Wing&nbsp; School Feb 1967 and MOI, at Fort Stewart, Georgia in 1968. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; From March of 1967 to March 1968 he served with the 48th Assault Helicopter Company (Blue Stars) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4169\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}