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2007-07-04 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Great rescue op - strapped onto the Gun mounts - quick thinking - and then when the rescue was complete - the Apache continued on mission - discipline at its finest!!

The video is at:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=3342148&page=1

Posted by GI_Wxman 2007-07-04 02:22|| 2007-07-04 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess ABC posted the video because it showed the insurgents' victory over American air power, not because of the heroic rescue.

After the rescue we kept the wreckage out of insurgents' hands by dropping a pair of 500 pound bombs on it. I'd have waited for a good, Paleo-style 'swarm' to have developed first.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-07-04 07:31|| 2007-07-04 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Even featured on the front page of today's Washington Post with a nice picture of the two guys on front of a flag, with the caption, "...shot down Monday in Iraq, only to be rescued despite taking heavy fire from insurgents."

Shot down "only to be resuced"? Am I missing the hidden MSM message?

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-04 08:30|| 2007-07-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 There was another incident a few years ago--duirng the initial invasion,I think--where an Apache lifted the crew of another downed helicopter on the skids.

Posted by Mike 2007-07-04 09:47|| 2007-07-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 I understand they teach this and practice it at Ft. Rucker.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-04 15:18|| 2007-07-04 15:18|| Front Page Top

#6 It is a taught emergency procedure, and for Mike it was just a few months ago and it was the Brits who did it with one of their crews.

Posted by TopMac 2007-07-04 20:07|| 2007-07-04 20:07|| Front Page Top

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