Bill Nevins

[Ray Wiley]

On 7 May at about noon, Major (ret) Bill Nevins died in his home in Manassas, VA. A full career Helo pilot, Bill will be interred at Quantico National Cemetary on Thursday, 13 May following a 1215 funeral service in Manassas.

[Bruce Colbert]

Bill Nevins was a neat guy and a damned good Marine.
Too young to leave us.
Bruce Colbert

[thomas.zuppke]

I'll always remember Dogma 00 and youse two folks driving it that day @ New River..."you got the controls...no I don't you got the controls..." Whoops! (foreground crunching noise...one dead flight line fire extinguisher).

Then, later on, when I was tasked with taking the Marine reps & honor guards to his son's funeral in MD (I think) we (the crew) were quaranteed to the flight line until the ceremony was over. Not a good day for some honest and well meaning Marines.

Hooper

[Larry Wert]

Bill was a Marine who taught me alot about flying a big helicopter in combat.
I'll always remember Dogma 00 and youse two folks driving it that day @ New River..."you got the controls...no I don't you got the controls..." Whoops! (foreground crunching noise...one dead flight line fire extinguisher).

Then, later on, when I was tasked with taking the Marine reps & honor guards to his son's funeral in MD (I think) we (the crew) were quaranteed to the flight line until the ceremony was over. Not a good day for some honest and well meaning Marines.

Hooper

Bill taught me how to handle a BIG helicopter in combat. He was truly a helicopter pilot. I understood how he was part of the first CH-53 squadron HMH-463.

Larry Wert

[thomas.zuppke]

Bill Nevins was the XO of 362 when the fire extinguisher got killed by Dogma 00. I'm thinking Ray Wiley was the CO at the time and lost a son to a heavy hauler accident near MD. That was the funeral I was referring to.

Hooper