Saw this floating around the facebook this afternoon.

I know some of you old Army Helo guys will get a kick out of their aircraft of choice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9NfapOdX80

I like the Cav Patch on the B Model Huey gunship. The loach was a more modern OH-6 than the A model. Mini-gun was pretty at 3,000 rounds per minute, but 7.62 nato rounds had little punch. In the turret of either C Model Huey or Cobra, it was hard to keep the belt from braking. The electric over hydraulic turret was too fast and the gun too fast. You had to point, hold steady, and shoot. Change target, point, hold steady, and shoot or you would brake the belt for no rounds per minute.

The Chunker, 300 rounds of 40 mm grenades per minute, was much more effective but hard to shoot accurately. When I got to Vietnam as a 1st Lt, we had Captains out the ass getting their tickets punched. I spent a lot of time in the front seat of the Cobra. I had the opportunity to become an excellent map reader and Chunker shooter. A fifteen to thirty degree difference in the aiming point and the target was common because of the speed of the aircraft. You could actually see the 40 mm rounds making the huge corner to arrive at the target. You could quickly pick out a good X-ray (front seater.) He would fire two rounds, make a correction before they impacted, and fire a long burst accurately. The bumb, bumb, bumb, bumb of the Chunker was much scarier than the tearing paper sound of the mini-gun. Charley told me so.

We painted the big yellow Cav patch on our birds so Charley knew he was fighting the First Team. 2/17th Air Cav, 1/9th rivals from the Hundred and Worst, were good soldiers as well, Cam Tom.