[Vhfcn-l] Comment from today's pilots

[Roger W. Ek]

> On Jan 12, 2019, at 5:51 PM, Arnold B Christensen via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
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> At 01:46 PM 1/12/2019, Darrell Elmore via Vhfcn-l wrote:
>> Yeah, Vietnam was the cowboy time in Army Aviation.  While I fully respect the aviators of the AF, Navy and USMC, none could collectively compare with magnificent (predominately) young men in their flying machines.  Literally thousands of grunts and such are alive today due to the skills, audacity and balls of those crews.

Yup.

https://video.kpbs.org/video/scramble-the-seawolves-yacuzi/ <https://video.kpbs.org/video/scramble-the-seawolves-yacuzi/>

A unit once asked if we would support them. One of our gunners replied, “Hell, we would scramble to attend a dog fight in Thailand!” 

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