Word: choppering
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...protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted the "Enemies List," vowing not to hate his haters, waving bravely from the chopper door, then flying back to California toward a town with a name that sounds like clemency...
Trailing only 300 yds. behind the observation chopper and flying slightly lower were two similar but fully armed AH-6s. They carried Gatling-like machine guns that could fire 4,000 7.62-mm bullets a minute. Their 2.75-in. rockets also carried a killing punch. The trio of choppers moved toward the tiny flotilla...
...Bernsen ordered the choppers to halt the Iranians' continued seeding of the waters. The strafing resumed until the Iran Ajr was disabled, its stern on fire. Six hours later in the light of dawn the SEALs from the Guadalcanal scrambled up the hull of the crippled ship. They found no one alive. Three bodies had been left behind by the fleeing crewmen amid a scene of destruction caused by the chopper assaults. Windows were shattered and huge gouges pocked the hull and cabin. Offices and other rooms had been ransacked in a hasty effort by the Iranians to destroy papers...
...situation at the embassy. Later, FOG members rented trucks in Tehran for the rescue team that was to be flown into Iran by helicopters supplied by the Navy. All for naught: the mission was scrubbed in April 1980 because of a helicopter malfunction at the landing site, and one chopper crashed into a cargo plane...
Five other men aboard the chopper were rescued...