Wild Thing’s comment……….
I love this video. It is truly a feel good video.
……Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion – 1st Aviation Brigade – Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
We need all the feel good we can get right about now. Thank you Chrissie and thank you RAC.
I saw this before and bookmarked it. I go to it once or twice a day just for a break from all the crap going on.
Thats neat. Good to see some things never change.
AK-47 sniper shot rings out, the grunt crumples to the ground. 7.62 through a man among men. Risking their own lives, his buddies carry him back for the ‘Doc’, the Bac Si, as the LT. calls out across the skies, asking for those he KNOWS, as long as there is fuel, they WILL come. The sound so sweet, Thwap thwap Thwap thwap Thwap thwap, the guide throws out goofy grape, echoed back as “AFFIRMATIVE” , wind whipping faces, the 11 Bravos hoist the boy cum MAN into the open door, screams Bobby: “TAKE CARE OF MY BEST FREIND!”… With the Cyclic, Collective, Pedals and Throttle as extensions of their limbs, the humble Sky Saviors pull pitch, and “Get the Fuck Outta Here”, in the dual effort to save the themselves, and more so the grunt, as that is their burden. The anxious seconds pass, hands quickly lift upon the gurney the boyMAN whose life, as so many before, and hence, have been saved by the Sky Soldiers, Pilot, Co-Pilot, Gunner and Crew Chief, they how are everlastingly bonded. The boyMan now has children grown, a wife plump and haughty, a white beard and memories, many fond, many not so, but always is THANKFUL to men whose name he never knew………
Thanks everyone and thank you RAC.
pontiff alex, that is awesome, WOW! And so beautifully told, thank you.