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Posted on 11/07/2014 2:26:10 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
LOL, they do...a lot. Sometimes for a week or more. It wasn't combat, but it was training. And that was during the Seventies when we sometimes couldn't fly due to budgetary restraints.
I think that statement the other poster made simply must have been a misinterpretation of what he had been told.
Thanks, bud...
Figures. I thought, for the Navy, it might be a sequestration-related budget thing, but it's clear the Army is still doing night-time exercises, given the occasional report of fatal chopper accidents.
Well, I admit it was in the Seventies when I was in, and it is possible things might be different, but I can’t imagine it.
I just can’t.
Heck, we were so short on money they had to drop pissy little blue practice bombs nearly all the time, and above the Arctic Circle in November, the only cold weather jackets they had were meant for 40 degree weather, not 20 degrees with 50 knot winds...we had to stuff them with cleaning rags before we went up. Funny...I recall guys acting like women at a Filene’s Basement sale when a new bale of rags came out...looking for the best rags!
And we didn’t have enough of them...we often had to hot-seat them. When someone came down, someone else would take the jacket and go up.
But we were still flying back then, so...I just can’t imagine they aren’t now.
welcome... as always i look forward to your input
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