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  • dpmule
    For work in various places, have done several H.U.E.T courses (Helicopter Underwater Escape Training) very similar.
    Got to see first hand some pretty interesting reactions of people, a couple got so confused that simply unbuckling their seatbelt was lost to them and rescue swimmer had to assist.

    Mule
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  • Rocky Raab
    I've also been through "Dunk and Flip" helo crash training. It's not terribly disorienting in a brightly lit clear pool and when you know what's coming, but it'd be impossible to escape in a dark, murky, and big wave crash.
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  • KenK/84Bravo

    Had me worried about the Marines in your area Ricci.

    Glad one was not down.

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  • Sam06
    I have gone down 4 times.
    2x UH-60's an HH-53 and a C-130.  None were in the water all were bad except the HH-53. 
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  • KenK/84Bravo

    Wow Sam!!!

    My Brother had a bad crash. (Cartwheeled multiple times.) In his UH-60 inserting Spec Ops flying nap of the earth at night (Sandstorm thrown in.) at the start of the live firing of Desert Storm. 160th SOAR, 101st ABN.

    Was up at night in a storm on a Chopper having engine trouble. That was good enough for me.

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  • Sam06
    Both Black Hawks were TF160 birds.  One was shot down and the other was hit by a C-130 in Guam.  The HH-53 was a rotor strike during a MOUT exercise and the C-130 crashed short of a runway in Nevada.
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  • KenK/84Bravo

    You and my Brother were both in at roughly the same time Sam. (My Brother was in for 11 years.) You probably know a lot of the same people.

    (Just sent him a text with your name.)

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  • Sam06
    When was he in?

    I didn't really know anyone in TF160 but I worked with them on numerous occasions.  Great bunch of guys and they could really put a Helo through its paces.
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  • KenK/84Bravo

    He was in 81/82 until 92/93.

    I know names were not bandied about on Operations, as it is all business. Only would be in down time that names were known.

    My Brother got out, and has been flying hot rodded Life flights since then all over the Country. Asked me if I wanted to go up with him while we were out in NM. Me - "Oh hell no." He would have tried to scare the living poop out of me. I know him.

    (Also his reputation from fellow Pilots in 160th SOAR that I met.) "Your Brother is Crazy, a Wildman, but the best Pilot in the Regiment."

    He was a Night Operations Instructor Pilot, When not deployed.

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  • Sam06
    He probably flew me around a few times. 
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