Word: blackhawks
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...They flew into a cloud of rain and dust in Kuwait City, transferred to a U.S. Air Force C-17, landed in a pounding thunderstorm at Baghdad International and, because the weather had grounded the US military Blackhawk fleet, boarded an armored SUV and drove into city along the notoriously perilous airport road. At one point they were slowed by a traffic blockage. They went straight to meetings that continued into dinner with Iraqi leaders at U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad?s residence. The sound of an exploding mortar round that had been lobbed over the green zone?s walls disrupted...
...which he had dispatched thousands of American troops. Eventually Bush?s absence would only have highlighted the fragile security situation in the country, where attacks on the Karzai government have been on the rise and President Bush had to swoop in - under the protection of military escorts - in a Blackhawk helicopter instead of the unarmed Presidential chopper that usually ferries him around...
...Mosul was a surprise detour on Rice's long-scheduled swing through the Middle East, and it involved trips on a C-17 cargo plane and a Blackhawk helicopter. She went to take a firsthand look at the work of the first of 16 U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Teams to be deployed in Iraq, a program that she has been instrumental in developing. Each team will comprise about 50 State Department officials and the same number of military civil affairs personnel. Their mission will be to funnel money and expertise to grassroots Iraqi political leaders, business people and non-governmental organizations...
...gunner knows a thing or two about that. Over the past three years, he and his crew have done back-to-back combat duty tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. But this was different. McFadden and his crew were sent on a humanitarian mission, and that's why the Blackhawk was stripped of its two machine guns...
...Helicopters offer the only means of reaching mountain villages and hamlets stranded by rockslides and the ultra-maneuverable Blackhawk is ideal for threading up the winding river courses at the bottom of narrow and steep valleys. McFadden and the others carried out as many missions as they could between daybreak to sundown. They were grounded temporarily on Tuesday afternoon when thunder and hail lashed the region. Otherwise, they have constantly ferried foreign rescue workers up into the mountains to dig for survivors in villages that melted away like sand castles when the earthquake hit. McFadden and his colleagues dumped...