Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helicopter lifts are by far the biggest. After the high-grade first aid at the front line, there is always the helicopter that takes the wounded, whether American or South Vietnamese, on their next quick trip. Slow and bumpy ambulance rides have been virtual ly eliminated by the ungainly choppers that brave everything from bullets to a sheet of monsoon rain, day or night. "Man, that chopper's roar don't bother me a bit," said a young marine last week as he watched a noisy Huey land to pick up a wounded buddy. "Sounds more like angels...
...brigades are being organized. At Fort Riley, Kans., the Army will activate the brand-new, 14,000-man 9th Infantry Division. More than 700 smaller units are taking shape. Twenty-nine additional Army helicopter companies are sprouting rotors. Last week the Pentagon announced plans for at least one more chopper-supported airmobile division...
Finally, on the seventh day, a bubble-nosed H13 Sioux helicopter fluttered close by. Braveboy unwrapped his hand and waved the bloody shirt for all he was worth. The chopper swung in overhead and dropped a cardboard box of C-rations. In it was turkey loaf, and only then did Braveboy realize that it was Thanksgiving...
...faculty at Wolters and Rucker consists increasingly of gung-ho Viet Nam veterans who imbue their students with the sense of mission that marks their units in the war zone. "The heli copter has done a great job," one gunship pilot tells his students. "If the chopper hadn't been in Viet Nam, that place would have been long gone by now." The close-cropped heads of warrant officer candidates nod enthusiastically. Says Major General John Tolson, commander of the Army Aviation Center: "They don't seem to find what they want in college. They just want...
...clotting jungle roof 250 feet high, impossible for helicopters to penetrate. The Airborne called for a chain saw and some C-4 high explosive to cut and blast a landing zone the next day. Meanwhile the most seriously wounded were hoisted through the trees in wire baskets by rescue choppers hovering overhead. At first light next morning, seven more chain saws attacked the jungle, and at 10 a.m. the clearing was big enough for one MEDEVAC chopper at a time to flutter down and carry out the remaining casualties...