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Chafee described a frightening helicopter flight out of Baghdad as the aircraft weaved to avoid enemy fire

These politicians crack me up with their "frightening experiences." I have yet to take a helicopter flight across Baghdad without the enemy trying to take shots at us. It's all just part of the normal routine here.

And I'm a civilian.

These pols love to grandstand and make mountains out of molehills to impress people, but to us, they just look like a bunch of whiny wimps.

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Wonder what he would have thought of my first orientation flight on a Huey.

That pilot loved NOE and for a second I thought he was going to blue thunder us.

Now that was an interesting flight.

Lincoln Chafee my nominee for this years up class twit of the year contest.