Afgan Helicopter Photo

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Great young pilot from PA. Outstanding job !!! Can you beat this?

Can't add anything else to this 1.. Picture is worth 10,000 words !

If you don't think our military pilots earn their pay .. you need to take a look at this picture .. and then look again and realize what you're seeing.

This photo was taken by a soldier in Afghanistan of a helo rescue mission. The pilot is a PA National Guard guy who flies EMS choppers in civilian life. Now how many people on the planet you reckon could set the rear end of a chopper down on the roof top of a shack on a steep mountain cliff and hold it there while soldiers load wounded men in the rear. If this does not impress you ... nothing ever will. Gives me the chills and a serious case of the vertigo ... I can't even imagine having the nerve ... much less the talent and ability ... God Bless our military.
 
I work on a EMS helicopter part-time. All our pilots have like 5000 hours. Two of them have been flying since Vietnam. They're really awesome pilots. I've never been scared flying with them. Early one morning we were headed to a near-by hospital. The pilot that morning was Bob Caldwell. He's an avid outdoorsman. He's always spoting deer on flights. Sometimes I wonder if how he can see those things so well. Anyway on that morning he proceeds to tell us about chasing a coyote with a Huey and trying to kill it with the skids on the aircraft. Sometimes I wonder about all the stories those guys could tell.
 
Patrick. Thats a awesome photo. I really like the ones where the drop that aircraft in the water and they drive the inflatable boat into the rear. The things those Spec Ops guys do is so impressive. God Bless them for their service of our country.
 
Cooter said:
Sometimes I wonder if how he can see those things so well.
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Many pilots have exceptional vision. Chuck Yeager claimed (modestly) to have had most of his success as a (WWII) fighter pilot to being able to see the enemy before the enemy could see him, and hand-eye coordination developed hunting squirrels as a youth (I believe he had 20-10 eyesight and grew up in KY).
 
Outstanding photo of our great troopers in action. Reminds me of the helo shot at the embassey in Siagon.
 
a.k.a. Patrick said:
The US Armed Forces are the baddest boyz!!!



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Great young pilot from PA. Outstanding job !!! Can you beat this?

Can't add anything else to this 1.. Picture is worth 10,000 words !

If you don't think our military pilots earn their pay .. you need to take a look at this picture .. and then look again and realize what you're seeing.

This photo was taken by a soldier in Afghanistan of a helo rescue mission. The pilot is a PA National Guard guy who flies EMS choppers in civilian life. Now how many people on the planet you reckon could set the rear end of a chopper down on the roof top of a shack on a steep mountain cliff and hold it there while soldiers load wounded men in the rear. If this does not impress you ... nothing ever will. Gives me the chills and a serious case of the vertigo ... I can't even imagine having the nerve ... much less the talent and ability ... God Bless our military.
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Un-freakin' believeable...:2thumbs:
 
Those mountains look very familiar to me. These type's of photo's should be showed on the evening news so the folks here in the states can see what the folks in uniform are doing over there............:usa
 
zoomzoom mazda5 said:
Those mountains look very familiar to me. These type's of photo's should be showed on the evening news so the folks here in the states can see what the folks in uniform are doing over there............:usa
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I agree. But instead, the media just gives us death totals and all the negative stuff...
 
As a Viet Nam era Vet I'm proud of anyone that serves our country.....especially since there is no draft like at that time. I volunteered, I served, and I'm damned proud of it.



The pilot in the picture has beyond extraordinary skills no question.
 
A nice variation without dishonoring the flag.............
 

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RTexasF said:
As a Viet Nam era Vet I'm proud of anyone that serves our country.....especially since there is no draft like at that time. I volunteered, I served, and I'm damned proud of it.



The pilot in the picture has beyond extraordinary skills no question.
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Ditto.



"I" believe the only true way to appreciate freedom is when you spend time protecting it.





Thanks Patrick for posting something positive for a bad situation our brave Men and Women are facing.:bigups



Former US ARMY Medical Corp.
 
I saw that photo awhile back, it's a fantastic shot. Talk about some serious skill. I am eternally grateful we have guys like this on our side. (what's the deal with having a salute emoticon for the Canadian and Brit flag, but not the U.S.?)



Setec Astronomy said:
That's a great shot. However, I have read about that elsewhere on the internet, and rather than evacuating "wounded men", that was soldiers transporting "persons of interest". In other words, terror suspects.



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In other words, the bad guys who are trying to kill our people and subjugate their own people by whatever means necessary.



FWIW, my son is in the Army and currently in basic training, 21C in the 35th Eng Bn. He's been notified that his unit expects to deploy to the mideast in July.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I was not commenting on whether they were bad guys or not, only the accuracy of the caption.
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Gotcha. I'm just not accustomed to hearing prisoners captured in combat theater (whether you want to call them proper POWs or not) referred to as "suspects" unless someone's trying to be "politically correct".
 
Without getting in a political debate, the guys out there are doing great no matter the political situation they are in.



Please note that the Russians really botched their Afgan campaign.
 
velobard said:
Gotcha. I'm just not accustomed to hearing prisoners captured in combat theater (whether you want to call them proper POWs or not) referred to as "suspects" unless someone's trying to be "politically correct".
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I was tired/in a hurry an chose my words poorly. I just wanted to make the distinction between prisoners/detainees/bad guys etc. and wounded. Maybe that's being politically correct, I dunno.
 
I’m retired US Army Aviation with 20 years and 2 years Vietnam service. What you are seeing is a maneuver that is part of Chinooks pilot training but makes a impressive photos. Being familiar with Chinooks in Vietnam what impress me is putting that big of target in harms way with as many venerable spots that exist on that aircraft. Unlike fix wing type aircraft, there are a lot rotating parts that need to quite rotating in a crash including 6 blades that turn in to flying missiles. The aviation folks deserve a real pat on the back when it comes to getting soldiers out of tight places, going into a landing zone to extract soldiers, that they know are hot with odds against them takes a lot of good old fashion guts. All you can say to those folks is a great big thanks and give then a thumbs up it really means a lot to them.
 
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