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today marks our last flight in the H

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one whiskey , Super Cobra . Hmm . A 267

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has been tasked with going to be the

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first all upgrade squadron . We already

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have the U . H . One Yankees in service

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here , the november has left a while

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ago and uh today is gonna be our last

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whiskey flights flown by our commanding

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officer . Whiskey was a big part of H .

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M . L . A . History . It saw action in

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Iraq Afghanistan and now we're moving

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on to a bigger and better aircraft .

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Just the capabilities of the aircraft

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are a little bit better . As far as

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sensors , avionics , how much

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ammunition I can carry , ordinance gas .

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It's all got a little bit bigger

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payload . It's faster . Uh ,

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definitely with a four blade system ,

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it's a lot smoother ride so you don't

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feel so beat up . Um , definitely you

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have your higher payload . It's going

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to be a four rotor blades system . So

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when I was at 14007 50

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for my max gross weight , it's now 18

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50 So £18,500

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and then if you just think about that

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weight sitting there in a room , that's

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a whole lot more I can take . Um , now

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with rockets , I can make rocket shots

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that I wouldn't dream of making a

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whiskey , we've hit out to six clicks

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while usually you'll be engaging within

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1.1 so that it's got the uh , c

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crp manual and auto , which is the

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continuously calculating release point

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in which my monocle will give me a grid

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and a diamond and I line it up and I

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can hold down the trigger and when

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everything's in parameters to hit that ,

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then it will release it on its own .

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And that's just something you could

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never even dream of . And I whiskey .

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Okay . How does too 67 stand out from

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other units ? Well , it is the

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recipient of the H . M . L . A . of the

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year . This year we had a very

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successful deployment in Afghanistan

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and I think everyone will agree about

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that . We had no mishaps , no friendly

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kills and no civilian casualties .

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Your experience with the zulus so far ,

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What have you done with that ? Zulu

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Mostly just flying around camp

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Pendleton . I haven't gotten to take it

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out uh to the bigger ranges over the

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hill yet , but I've shot here and the

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weapons systems are pretty mind blowing .

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The grunts always want skids overhead .

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They'll always ask for it . They like

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our rotor noise , they like our guns .

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So as long as there's boots on the deck ,

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there's gonna be people asking for us .

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Uh , while I am an upgrades guy , I am

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really sad to see the whiskey go . It's

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got the coolest sounding rotor blades

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on earth and I'll miss that . But time

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goes on