Gaijin: Apache: Air Assault

bobbysocks · #1 07-18-2010, 06:59 AM

a guy i work with is an Apache jock....guess i am going to have to hit him up for pointers....

dkwookie · #2 07-18-2010, 10:37 AM

I bought the real account book Apache by Ed Macy this week. If you get chance it's a great read. It recounts a rescue mission with soldiers sat on the missile pylons.

trk29 · #3 07-18-2010, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by dkwookie

I bought the real account book Apache by Ed Macy this week. If you get chance it's a great read. It recounts a rescue mission with soldiers sat on the missile pylons.

I bet that was a scary ride home!

winny · #4 07-18-2010, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by dkwookie

I bought the real account book Apache by Ed Macy this week. If you get chance it's a great read. It recounts a rescue mission with soldiers sat on the missile pylons.

Strangley, I've just read the accounts of the same thing but from the guys who were clinging on.. (If it's the one where they were going back for Lance Corporal Ford).

I don't know if you've read Chickenhawk? My favourite book about helicopters in combat.

dkwookie · #5 07-18-2010, 01:45 PM

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Strangley, I've just read the accounts of the same thing but from the guys who were clinging on.. (If it's the one where they were going back for Lance Corporal Ford).

I don't know if you've read Chickenhawk? My favourite book about helicopters in combat.

Chickhawk was a great book. I remember one of the quotes on it saying it has so much detail you could fly a copter after reading it.

Riceball · #6 07-18-2010, 02:20 PM

If I was a warrior, and had just been rescued, I would welcome a ride on the pylons of a professionally flown Apache. Maybe the best time of my life.

Not scary at all.

winny · #7 07-18-2010, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Riceball

If I was a warrior, and had just been rescued, I would welcome a ride on the pylons of a professionally flown Apache. Maybe the best time of my life.

Not scary at all.

Sadly the guy they went to get was already dead when they got there.

4 marines on the pylons of 2 apaches went into a Taliban fort to get his body back after he was left behind. 3 of them voulnteered without knowing what it was they were voulnteering for.. As for not scary.. they were sitting on the 2 biggest bullet magnets around with 50-100 taliban trying to kill them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyJl6btNq8

Riceball · #8 07-18-2010, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by winny

Sadly the guy they went to get was already dead when they got there.

4 marines on the pylons of 2 apaches went into a Taliban fort to get his body back after he was left behind. 3 of them voulnteered without knowing what it was they were voulnteering for.. As for not scary.. they were sitting on the 2 biggest bullet magnets around with 50-100 taliban trying to kill them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyJl6btNq8

Too bad the objective was dead. RIP.

You must realize. Scary to you and me has a different meaning to some people.

You can bet your ass the people involved in this mission were COMBAT VETERANS.

Brings to mind the two Snipers in Somalia that volunteered to get dropped off in order to protect the crew of a downed Blackhawk. Not knowing how many there were left to protect.

A different species than the rest of us.

trk29 · #9 07-18-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Riceball

If I was a warrior, and had just been rescued, I would welcome a ride on the pylons of a professionally flown Apache. Maybe the best time of my life.

Not scary at all.

Have you ever been directly underneath a helicopters wash several hundred feet in the air? My buddy fly's a shitter for the Marine corp and I have been near it as it was taking off and I can tell you rotor wash from one of those is mind boggling. I'm sure they knew they had a job to do and were 100% confident they could get it done. But at some point me personally I would say "This is crazy we are sitting on top of rockets". I was saying it would be scary sitting on the pylon directly underneath the rotor there is not much room in between the two.

Soviet Ace · #10 07-19-2010, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by trk29

Have you ever been directly underneath a helicopters wash several hundred feet in the air? My buddy fly's a shitter for the Marine corp and I have been near it as it was taking off and I can tell you rotor wash from one of those is mind boggling. I'm sure they knew they had a job to do and were 100% confident they could get it done. But at some point me personally I would say "This is crazy we are sitting on top of rockets". I was saying it would be scary sitting on the pylon directly underneath the rotor there is not much room in between the two.

Especially if you're 6' or more.