Anonymous Report This Comment Date: December 21, 2007 12:19PM
Looks like a Hind.
Duane
90130_ Report This Comment Date: December 21, 2007 12:38PM
Right you are Duane. It's an MI-24.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: December 21, 2007 10:32PM
Remember all the flash recognition cards in the Army lol. Silhouettes, that
double stacked cockpit sticks in the mind even after 17 years. That and how to
assemble and disassemble and perform function checks M-16's, M-60's, and SAW's
that I will probably never see again. I was telling my son(who is caught up in
Army stuff)how to perform sports on an M-16 and I still remembered a lot of my
common tasks. Slap, pull, observe, release, tap, squeeze. I bored him pretty
quick but got caught up myself lol. Setting Claymores, using Antropene and gas
masks. Memory lane.
woberto Report This Comment Date: December 22, 2007 05:10AM
Yeah, playing army is fun!
Scary to think that you are our allies, that aircraft could easily be an
A129.
After all, you yanks did invent the term "friendly fire".
There's an Italian A129 shown at the bottom of this cool website
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Anonymous Report This Comment Date: December 22, 2007 08:37AM
Sorry my gay friend but the Agusta A129 Mangusta was not active while I was
active in the Army. Besides it's Italian, who cares JK.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: December 22, 2007 10:01AM
I concur. That's not an A129 in this pic.
This is.
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Looks like a warmed over US Army Cobra gunship.
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90130_ Report This Comment Date: December 22, 2007 10:11AM
Besides, Woberto...just what is it with this problem you have with us
Yanks? We're just trying to be cool here and discuss the pic.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: December 22, 2007 10:13AM
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woberto Report This Comment Date: December 23, 2007 02:30AM
Sorry 90210 but I couldn't resist trying to get a rise out of you.
I'm not sure why the term yanks is so common in Australia but I assure you it is
not offensive.
The same way we call English pohms and New Zealanders kiwis.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: December 23, 2007 03:47AM
No worries, I'm not offended since the term has no real derogatory conotation.
It comes from the US Civil war, when Union soldiers were called
"Yankees" by their Confederate counterparts.
Now some of my Brit friends might be put off by the acronym "POHM" or
"POMMY" since it implies that our cousins across the pond are
"Prisoners Of Her Majesty" (which may be true to some extent) and it
harkens back to times when Australia was a penal colony.
One of my motorcycle mates is a New Zealander, and we affectionately refer to
him as "Kiwi" which he likes and and isn't put off by it in the
least.
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