Posted on 02/07/2007 1:20:58 AM PST by HAL9000
I was the third guy in an H model flying low level in a country which cannot be named when it experienced catastrophic gear box failure. I don't recommend it.
Ouch! The main transmission?
It was sarcasm, not humor at all. There is a difference.
I missed the sarcasm. Thanks.
Here but for the grace of God.
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Amen to that,,,I was there 67-68,,,Arty,,,
Ain't much "nap" in Iraq from the looks of most of it,,,
We had 1 name for CH-46-47's and you know what that is,,,
SH**Hook ! LOL,,, Hear em' comin' a mile away,,,
Hear em' comin' a mile away,,,
Like trying to sneak up on someone while bangin' on a bass drum. The 46s out of Marble Mountain in Danang used "Chatterbox" as their call sign.
I've been in a Chinook one time in my life. A Co., 4th Avn. Bn. personnel arrived in Pleiku from Ft. Lewis on C-141s one week into 1967. "Big Windy" (179th) Chinooks out of Camp Holloway took us from there to the 4th ID base camp. It was like being in an industrial sized clothes dryer. I loved flying helicopters but hated riding in them.
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