Word: choppers
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...their location with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and a steady hail of small-arms fire. The clatter of the approaching Chinook may or may not have been audible to the SEALs, but the Taliban surely heard it. A second band of fighters turned and took a bead on the chopper, probably with a rocket- propelled grenade, and in what a U.S. official calls "a pretty lucky shot," knocked...
...flames had attracted searchers dispatched by Japan's Air Self-Defense Force. They made passes in two planes but saw nothing moving in the desolate, fiery scene. Much of the wreckage had spilled onto a nearly 45° slope, and there was no way for even a chopper to land safely in the dark. Expecting no survivors, the searchers spent the rainy night setting up a base in the mountain village of Uenomura, 42 miles from the crash site. Area firemen and Japan's Ministry of Transport also mobilized searchers. But the narrow, serpentine roads and trails winding up from...
...cuts and torn muscles. Also still alive were Hiroko Yoshizaki, 34, and her daughter Mikiko, 8, who were found under debris. Both had broken bones. The two children were lifted to the helicopter in the arms of troopers hanging from horse-collar slings. The women were winched into the chopper on stretchers...
Then there is the recent contest to build Marine One, the President's helicopter. For the first time, the Pentagon has decided not to buy from Connecticut's Sikorsky Aircraft Co., instead choosing an Anglo-Italian chopper that initially will be made in Europe by a consortium of firms in partnership with Maryland's Lockheed Martin. "The Marine One decision was highly symbolic," admits John Douglass, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, a U.S. trade group. "It showed that foreign companies can compete and win on the most sensitive programs...
...been 30 years since the last helicopter fluttered off a Saigon rooftoop roof on April 30, 1975, the images of desperate Vietnamese clinging to the chopper's landing slats burned into both countries' consciousness. That moment marked the end of a 15-year debacle that claimed more than 50,000 American lives?and more than 1 million Vietnamese. For years, many Americans, like the Lus, have sought to forget the image of the U.S.'s ignominious retreat from Vietnam?but to the American military and political establishment, the legacy of that war has become steadily more haunting...