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For those that haven't decided on getting this one, following are a couple of quotes that set the tone of all that I have read so far:
"" Army helicopter pilots, unlike Air Force, didn't need a college degree; many were scarcely out of high school, gutsy twenty-year-old warrant officers, too young, perhaps, to be daunted by the everyday dangers of flying for SOG. No youthful SOG aviator put it so well as Mike Taylor, A Huey pilot in the 57th Assault Helicopter Company, who attempted to explain aerial tactics to a visiting Marine colonel. "We stay as high as we can for as long as we can," Taylor told him, "then we get as low as we can, as quick as we can." The colonel replied, "Those tactics sound suicidal." "No sir," Taylor explained, "the tactics are sound--the mission is suicidal."
Later John says to a Crew Chief:
"The happiest I am is when I get off that bird, and get away in the jungle. You have to be nuts to fly in and out of hot LZs like you do."
"We're nuts?" he responded. "You guys are f***ing crazy to get off the helicopter!"
It just keeps getting better !!!
Later
Martin
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