[rlmorel]

"...I'm surprised they don't do war games involving night time landings..."

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.

[Zhang Fei]

I think that statement the other poster made simply must have been a misinterpretation of what he had been told.

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.