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Yeah . Today was a milestone for

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H267 and it was our last flight of a

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whiskey cobra , years of flying

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whiskies . We got our first one in 1987 .

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So 25 years later , we're finally out

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of the whiskey business . Whiskey was a

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big part of family history . It saw

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action in Iraq Afghanistan

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and now we're moving on to a bigger and

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better aircraft .

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I am really sad to see the whiskey go .

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It's got the coolest sounding rotor

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blades on earth and I'll miss that .

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But time goes on . Mhm .

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For me , this is the end of an era and

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probably the last time I'm gonna fly

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whiskey um for the rest of the pilots

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and the squatter and the younger guys ,

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uh the majority of them are right now

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in the process and converting over to

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the zulu . Uh Yeah , that whiskey

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platform has been , it's been going

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strong here obviously for 25 years and

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still in service overseas . still still

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actively engaged in the fighting . Oh

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yeah , still doing great things . Mhm .

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It's bittersweet , you know , it's the

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you know , we watched the whiskey fly

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away , it's not the last flight for the

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whiskey is just the last flight for the

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whiskey here , but somebody has to be

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first and uh you know , we're embracing

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that we uh the whiskey flies away today .

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Uh it was our last one . So the

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beginning of a beginning of a new era .

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Pretty easy Mark Mark on the tape of

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time .

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I mean a great helicopter that's had a

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great history in the Marine Corps , I

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think when the guys on the ground see a

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whiskey coming overhead , you know ,

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they know they're going to get some

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very good support and You know , I

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think the whiskey has just been a

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success story for 25 plus years ,

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so I was just proud to be part of that .