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.
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.
It’s amazing the nice toys the government will give you to play with if you dedicate your life to them, literally.
A “slick” did not have external guns or rocket pods...That’s why it was called a “slick”...No wind drag from external weapons...
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.
Sorry you have such a problem with the truth....
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...
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.
Imagine knowing these men
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.
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.
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