Photo Story Heading For Trouble - F Troop 1972
This is a painting from artist Bill Phillips called "Heading for Trouble".
Lloyd Goldsmith, 1LT Cobra pilot F Troop 1971 says:
One small piece of Centaur history was captured by Bill Phillips in a Vietnam print. This print is from after I left F Troop and the troop moved North. At the time I bought the print in Germany there was a question about the IR suppressors that are shown in the picture – they were not on the Cobras when I was with the troop and there was a question about them being installed in Vietnam. It’s hard to see in this picture but the Cobras do have the Centaur shark teeth on them. One sales pitch for the print is below and a picture of the print is attached.
Bill Phillips served in Vietnam, so it is from personal experience that he paints the conflict there. He describes "Heading for Trouble" in these words:
"As dawn breaks in Northern South Vietnam, two AH-1G's of F Troop, 4th Cavalry, begin a search-and-destroy sweep led by an OH-6A Loach. Though heavily armed, both the scouts and the gunships were in constant danger from hostile ground fire. These conditions and the close proximity to the ground required the utmost in skill and courage from each crew for every time they flew they were 'heading for trouble.'"