Oh my god! The black helicopters! They’re flying all over Texas!
Wait….I used to fly black helicopters…disregard. đŸ˜‰
I was gonna say….
Oh come on, John, none of the Cobras or Blackhawks I worked on were really black. Dark Green, but not black…
Hell, even a Seahawk looks black silhouetted against the sky.
I used to think that flying a black helicopter was cool…until I had to fly day operations in Kuwait in June. That was not cool, that was holy-crap-I’m-dying hot. It was hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock, as one of my gunners put it.
Cockpit glass looks really great until the daytime sun shines in on a hot day…over the course of a day of flying.
That silencer kinda reminds me of the infamous rubber bullets disguised as ear plugs…
At least we had some airflow in a helo. We had a brigade from 3rd ID next door to us at Ali Al-Saleem Air Base and I can only imagine how hot it got in their armored vehicles.
Remind me to do a write-up one of these days about a small dispute that broke out between the SOF guys at Al-Saleem and 3rd ID. It involved the treatment of the rank-and-file soldiers of the division by their brigade CO and CSM. Really strange episode, just remembered it while thinking about Kuwait.
Oh my god! The black helicopters! They’re flying all over Texas!
Wait….I used to fly black helicopters…disregard. đŸ˜‰
I was gonna say….
Oh come on, John, none of the Cobras or Blackhawks I worked on were really black. Dark Green, but not black…
Hell, even a Seahawk looks black silhouetted against the sky.
I used to think that flying a black helicopter was cool…until I had to fly day operations in Kuwait in June. That was not cool, that was holy-crap-I’m-dying hot. It was hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock, as one of my gunners put it.
Cockpit glass looks really great until the daytime sun shines in on a hot day…over the course of a day of flying.
That silencer kinda reminds me of the infamous rubber bullets disguised as ear plugs…
At least we had some airflow in a helo. We had a brigade from 3rd ID next door to us at Ali Al-Saleem Air Base and I can only imagine how hot it got in their armored vehicles.
Remind me to do a write-up one of these days about a small dispute that broke out between the SOF guys at Al-Saleem and 3rd ID. It involved the treatment of the rank-and-file soldiers of the division by their brigade CO and CSM. Really strange episode, just remembered it while thinking about Kuwait.