follow - up to chopper comment
I rode in a few choppers while in the Navy, during the gulf war and no disrespect but those birds were all scary as hell especially the ch-46 Chinook (twin rotor) .. or shit-hook. The ones we had in the 90's were leftover from the 70's I think ... old as dirt and held together with duct tape and bubble gun. One landing the pilot intentionally tried to make me crap my pants .. he did like a couple axis spins on a very fast decent in the old twin rotor. down onto a ship. Some of those old helo's rattle and shake like hell. I had also rode on hueys and sea stallions.. same as black-hawk i think and some other old anti sub helo and some old thing known only as a desert duck. i was no assault soldier dont get me wrong. I was a corpsman on a ship, and was chosen to do all patient air evac's. No flight pay either. But all and all it was exciting.
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