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LOL, <3 C&H
For anyone who has played through Ravenholm.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...2_humour_1.jpg
lol'd @ the hulk one.
It's real, I read an article on Apache medivac. He's strapped to the side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
Took me forever to find a copy of the original, but:
http://www.spacebrick.net/pictures/b...ery/apache.jpg
It was shopped. Sorry to rain on your parade, ExAm.
I knew it looked familiar :\
It has been done, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar
EDIT:
Quote:
Apache pilots save critically-wounded Soldier with unorthodox evacuation
By Staff Sgt. Lorin T. Smith
36th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs
http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/archive...pache_save.jpg
Chief Warrant Officer-4 Kevin Purtee (left) and Chief Warrant Officer-2 Allen Crist, Company B, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack), man the AH-64 helicopter they used to help save the life of a critically wounded Soldier. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Randall Stillinger)
http://www.ngb.army.mil/images1/external.gif download hi-res photo
LOGISTICS SUPPORT AREA ANACONDA, Iraq (7/24/2007) – Two pilots from Company B, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack), 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, risked their lives in an unorthodox casualty evacuation to transport a critically-wounded Soldier in an AH-64A helicopter during a firefight in Ramadi, Iraq, June 30.
Chief Warrant Officer-4 Kevin Purtee and Chief Warrant Officer-2 Allen Crist, two Apache helicopter aviators flying their last combat mission, are credited with assuring a Soldier of Company A, 1st Battalion, 77th Armor, of prompt medical care by their actions. The Soldier had been shot in the face and the arm, and needed to be evacuated from a raging battle near Donkey Island in Ramadi.
The pilots learned that more than 40 minutes had elapsed since the ground unit had called for the medical evacuation aircraft to transport wounded Soldiers to the hospital at Camp Ar Ramadi. Chief Purtee, from Houston, Texas, was the pilot, which is commonly referred to as the "back-seater." Chief Crist, from Warrensburg, Mo., was the copilot/gunner, or "front-seater." Chief Purtee asked Chief Crist if he felt comfortable giving up his seat for the critically-wounded Soldier for the quick flight back to the camp.
"Absolutely," Chief Crist emphatically answered. Chief Purtee made the decision that to save the Soldier’s life, Chief Crist would fly on the wing of the aircraft on the way to the hospital.
Chief Crist and three other infantrymen lifted the wounded Soldier up into the Apache’s front seat. Chief Crist strapped him in.
"He was bandaged up, and blood was all over him," Chief Crist recalled.
Chief Crist then went to the left side of the aircraft and ran a tether to the aircraft and hooked it on his air warrior vest. He sat on the small wing of the Apache and placed his feet on a narrow walkway lining the fuselage. He knocked on the window to let Chief Purtee know that he was in position and ready for the flight.
Why has no one made a 300 joke out of this thread on the 300th page yet? Or like... has the internet moved on from that? :eyesroll:
L2kill meme.