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To: mystery-ak

I was a helicopter instructor pilot there in 1980, CH-47's.


61 posted on 03/01/2007 12:47:11 PM PST by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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To: ladtx

really...that's what he went there for...Chinooks....


65 posted on 03/01/2007 12:48:03 PM PST by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero........God Speed Jonathan......)
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To: ladtx
I was a helicopter instructor pilot there in 1980, CH-47's.

My dad was a helicopter instructor there in the mid 70's on those TH-55's and Cobras. BigBird. The Silver Eagles used to practice there as well.

69 posted on 03/01/2007 12:49:59 PM PST by Centurion2000 (If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
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To: ladtx

In the 70's, we would go out to "The Flats" outside of Elba to watch the helicopters practice landings. Also down at Tact 1.


104 posted on 03/01/2007 1:11:14 PM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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