Info Sheet/Obituary - Gregory Lee Spung
Died 15 June 2014
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Obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/omaha/name/gregory-spung-obituary?id=5340316
Frank Dillon notes that the 7/72 Roster shows: Gregory L. Spung mos 45J20 DEROSED 25 Oct 72.
He was from Nebraska.
Lin Riniker 5Mar2019: remembers Gregory L. Spung: As I recall Greg arrived while the troop was in Phu Bai around May 72. He didn’t care for the primitive nature of the place and, since we needed an armament guy in Danang, went down there. He did a great job cleaning up the systems while the acft went thru PE.
Lin Riniker Talking about burning rocket pod: As a result of that jettison failure we replaced the cartridges in the ejection racks and found some were corroded and had never been checked or replaced based on having to use a cheater bar on the wrench in order to remove them. This was supposed to be done as part of every PE. I believe Greg Spung began checking out the racks after he was assigned to rear maintenance in DaNang. Most blown tubes came from sand infiltration and the outboard pods were most susceptible to this due to not being used in the same frequency as the inboards. We also started a periodic cleaning program of the outboards by downloading the rockets and brushing out the tubes. This greatly helped reduce hung rockets. I believe Babysan Joe DeMaio frequently got that duty.