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2010-03-16 Afghanistan

I've killed more people than Jack The Ripper

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Posted by tipper 2010-03-16 13:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Big deal. Jack had what, five?

Posted by mojo 2010-03-16 13:13|| 2010-03-16 13:13|| Front Page Top

#2 No comment.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-16 13:18|| 2010-03-16 13:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Col. Tibbets did too. He dealt with it.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-03-16 13:25|| 2010-03-16 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 So did Boudica. Ask the early settlers of Camulodunum (Colchester) and Londinium (London).

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-16 16:03|| 2010-03-16 16:03|| Front Page Top

#5 They showed her best side anyway.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-03-16 16:07|| 2010-03-16 16:07|| Front Page Top

#6 ...I am...shall we say...uneasy about a couple of points in the article:

"That was your first real engagement, wasn't it?" my co-pilot "Fog" says. "

Apaches do not have co-pilots, they have pilots and gunners. The gunner - AFAIK - is not a rated pilot, though it's possible in British Army service things may be different.

my colleague, Darwin, is shouting from the back seat.

The pilot flies the Apache from the back seat. The gunner is in the front seat.

These are unusual errors for an Apache pilot to make in writing. I'm hoping there's an explanation for them.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-03-16 16:26|| 2010-03-16 16:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't care if it's fiction or not. I want MORE!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-16 16:36|| 2010-03-16 16:36|| Front Page Top

#8 If the story is true and not fiction, I'd say to Charlotte: "What chance did the murdered people in the WTCs, the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania have?" These are the thugs who did it. And thanks for doing your job.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-16 22:00|| 2010-03-16 22:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Not so sure about all that Mike, your right on some of it. In the US both are rated aviators, not pilots, there are flight controls in both the front and rear, and both can manage the weapons systems. You are correct that the primary gunner is the front seater, just like the ol Cobra. They tried, in the US, to put spotters-nonrated types, in OH-58d's. The program lasted a few years and was killed long before this war.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-03-16 22:00|| 2010-03-16 22:00|| Front Page Top

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