to all of you who have served

[mr48chev]

I ended hanging upside down in one once when we got our tail rotor driveshaft shot in two. Took a few hits, all the gauges of importance read good and we flew a few more miles and were slowed down to look at a hooch in the forest when the bird went into a spin an down in the trees. They dropped a rope from a Huey and all three of us were lifted out at one time with the pilot sitting on my head. He by the way was the last pilot I flew a mission with several months later when we came back from a mission with tree branches in the skids from flying through a tree rather than over it an I was standing on the flightline shaking after we got back and the 6 walked up and asked me what was wrong an I pointed to the branches and he grounded me. Walked away from two crashes and didn't want to go for a third.