15 Oct
2015
15 Oct
'15
8:20 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Oct 15, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com>
wrote:
>
> ...
> DEC had a helicopter service. The pilots had nealy all been in Vietnam.
> I heard the following story at a sales meeting.:
>
> The helicopters would usually rise gently to 2000' and set course fo the next
plant. Unless you asked how they had got on in SE Asia.
> Then you got the "how to get to the drop zone whilst avoiding AAA, smallarms
fire and ground to air missiles demo".
> Aparrantly one guy said to the person sat next to him it's a pity you had your
eyes closed when we flew under the high voltage wires.
> You missed going under the bridge on the other side
They would even fly a team of technicians to a mountaintop to install
a microwave receiver and a single terminal on it!
--
Eric Christopherson