Word: choppering
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...silver star from the Army for repeatedly rushing into the flaming wreckage of three U.S. helicopters that had crashed during the Grenada invasion (one, hit by ground fire, had smashed into the other two). A medic, he ignored enemy shooting and the possibility of imminent explosions of the chopper fuel tanks to pull at least three comrades to safety...
...Huey") helicopter, Salvadoran Army Colonel Julio César Yánez López stared with satisfaction at the thin plumes of smoke coiling across the scrubby landscape below. "We're fighting terrorists, not guerrillas with a noble cause," he announced as the chopper settled to earth alongside a cornfield crackling with flames. "We're going to integrate Usulután back into the economic life of this country...
...from inside Nicaragua," said Juan Carlos Torres, 20. "The Sandinistas were shooting at the helicopter, and it was being hit. It was in trouble and just made it across to Honduras." Another witness, Santo Andre Valledares, 24, recalled: "When the gringos arrived, they fell out of the chopper and one looked to be dead. The Sandinistas kept up their fire for a full five minutes after the crash...
...current craze. The air waves are bristling with blades, and gyrating, swooping chase sequences have become as common as the earthbound, four-wheeled variety. ABC's new series Blue Thunder (derived from the movie of the same title) features a mean, blackbottle fly of a police chopper that is essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter that is invisible to radar. One of its pilots, Ernest Borgnine, decorously refers to it as "she," as if it were a more temperamental version of the flying...
...Henderson's first missions was to fly support personnel into a "hot area," landing her OH-58 chopper in the middle of a soccer field held by the G.I.s. Henderson recalls that they were so startled at seeing a woman that one shouted, "This is amazing. Go get my camera." And how do most men handle the proximity of women in battle? Henderson thinks that many resent it. Says she: "We take away some of the glamour...