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It never leaves

Posted on 04/15/2024 9:25:55 AM PDT by redcatcherb412

Its been 56 years and yet just the sound of these birds can get the adrenaline going and the pulse quickening.

Slick drivers

If you've never sat on the floor of a Huey holding on to the pilot seat frame as your slick was running balls out a hundred feet above the jungle headed into a hot firefight, door guns, mini guns and rocket pods blazing. Well, then at 18 years old you just never experienced one of the most intense adrenaline dumping events in your short life.


TOPICS: VetsCoR
KEYWORDS: choppers; combat; huey; ptsd; vietnam

1 posted on 04/15/2024 9:25:55 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: redcatcherb412

It’s amazing the nice toys the government will give you to play with if you dedicate your life to them, literally.


2 posted on 04/15/2024 9:46:33 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore?)
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A “slick” did not have external guns or rocket pods...That’s why it was called a “slick”...No wind drag from external weapons...


3 posted on 04/15/2024 9:55:59 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Well aren’t you the armament nomenclature f’kng genius lol.

There was never a gunship allowed to carry troops either I guess, would F’k with the terminology.


4 posted on 04/15/2024 4:10:17 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Sorry you have such a problem with the truth....


5 posted on 04/15/2024 4:21:57 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949
of course hanging a .50 out the door instead of an external pylon meant it wasn't a slick either. Don't recall any high speed troop insertions that were flying so fast that wind drag was a problem. Much less the doors off and troops all but hanging out the doors would ever cause drag. But, could be I guess.
6 posted on 04/15/2024 4:29:26 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Just posted the reason the chopper was called a “slick”...

There’s reasons one was called a “slick” and one was called a “gunship”...

It’s simple as that...


7 posted on 04/15/2024 4:42:45 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: redcatcherb412

Those waap waap sounds never leave... I wasn’t in nam. I was just one of the last huey crewchiefs in the NG. Got out in 2004 with the hueys. Best aircraft ever.


8 posted on 05/22/2024 2:36:16 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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So very true


9 posted on 05/22/2024 1:25:34 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Imagine knowing these men

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo79sqsmjbY&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F&feature=emb_logo


10 posted on 06/01/2024 11:22:23 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Pocketdoor

Those waap waap sounds never leave... I wasn’t in nam. I was just one of the last huey crewchiefs in the NG. Got out in 2004 with the hueys. Best aircraft ever.

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SR71. Gotta give props to Hueys though. They did a tough job.

Vietnam Era here, never went in country. Slight but Vital Difference.


11 posted on 06/12/2024 3:20:44 PM PDT by dagunk
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I take it you never went through the Straits of Malacha in a fast frigate during really bad weather.

Forget the adrenaline rush. We're talking getting the fear of God put into you praying you make it out alive while the ship shudders beneath your feet over and over again for hours when hitting the bottom of a wave trough.

12 posted on 09/05/2024 8:01:29 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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