Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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opens into the Lotus, Cobra, Plough...
...relating the uses of the helicopter, as refined in Viet Nam, to the Army of the '70s and '80s. Should TRICAP prove out over the next three years, it will employ tanks for shock on the ground, Hueys and CH-47 Chinooks for troop transport, and either Cobra gunships, or the new Lockheed Cheyenne missile platforms for air support. The modernized division will be assigned as part of the U.S. commitment to NATO defensive units in Western Europe...
Then there is Sister Morphine. Rarely has rock music invoked such an invitation to hell. An electric guitar quivers menacingly, like a poised cobra. Off in the distance somewhere, the piano groans a low, dark, mournful chord. Jagger, sounding like John Lennon baring his soul, speaks from a hospital bed of the mind: "Oh, can't you see I am fadin' fast/ And that this shot will be my last...
Mission Accomplished. In mid-afternoon the first chopper, a Cobra gunship, swinging low to check the landing zone, came under heavy fire from the ground. It tried to roll out, but nosed into the jungle and exploded. The second, a Huey troop carrier, managed to land and evacuate 17 men. The third was hit by machine-gun fire and crashed. Two hours later, two more helicopters landed and rescued the downed chopper's crew and the last ARVN troops...
...pilots pushed the Cobra into a steep dive. Before they pulled up-at about 500 ft.-Walters had fired two pairs of 2.75-in. rockets into enemy positions. Diving again, Hayden let go with his 7.62-mm. minigun against a pocket of North Vietnamese caught in the open near the perimeter wire. Terrified, the Communists scattered back into the tree line, leaving 15 bodies on the ground. There was another strike, then another and another, until Hayden had expended his entire 2,500-lb. load of ordnance. By noontime, he was back at Khe Sanh to refuel, rearm and wait...