Word: chopper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crown," a C-130 command plane that coordinates the rescue. Then come four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival and medical care...
...Division headquarters near Hue in an effort to woo rebellious officers back to Ky's side, but no sooner had he ended his speech and climbed aboard the U.S. helicopter that was to return him to Danang than a South Vietnamese lieutenant took a shot at the chopper. An American machine gunner cut him down with a single burst...
...minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
...angered by the harassment of loyal Vietnamese air force planes, loudly threatened to shell the airfield immediately. The marines first ordered the Vietnamese airmen to stop their flights. Then Colonel John Chaisson jumped into an armed helicopter, flew to Yeu's command post and had his chopper put down directly in front of the howitzers. In hard Yankee accents, he delivered an ultimatum: "If you make one menacing move toward those artillery pieces, we must consider you hostile. We will annihilate you." By now, five batteries of marine artillery were zeroed in on Yeu's command post. Armed...
...enemy off-balance as he prepared his campaigns for the coming monsoon, and Air Cav Commander Major General Harry W. O. Kinnard had given his Flying Horsemen orders to do just that in Operation Lincoln. But the enemy was nowhere to be found. Then a bullet pinged into a chopper from below. Nosing down like angry hornets, a swarm of Hueys carrying a 32-man reconnaissance platoon spotted three Viet Cong on the run, landed near by in the hope of capturing them. They had indeed discovered the enemy -a full battalion of entrenched Red troops. As the forest erupted...