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To: MediaMole
"Helicopters are unforgiving beasts."

Agreed - if maintained or flown by amateurs..

Virtual angels when piloted by the best and coming to ferry out your wounded from a hot LZ....

9 posted on 09/15/2007 10:50:31 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat

“...Virtual angels when piloted by the best and coming to ferry out your wounded from a hot LZ....”

Amen to that. I saw a Discovery Channel program on helicopter evacs and they talked about a pilot whos callsign was “Dust-off”. He was one of the best when flying into a really hot LZ. His chopper was finally shot down and Dust-off was killed. In his honor, the preocess of flying in, loading the wounded, and getting out of there was given a term: dust-off.


24 posted on 09/16/2007 7:49:43 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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