Resupply bird or freedom bird
Chopper is just taking off from giving us our resupply(looks like C-Rations and a new pack)We would always have two guys on each side of the chopper and when it landed they job was to pull it off as fast as they can,as soon as the last box is cleared the bird the pilot will apply full power and get his butt back in the sky where he thinks it safer.After chopper has left the detail has to move the stuff to the middle of the perimeter to where the Captain is at.It all gets divided up there.Everybody looks for the red nylon bag more than anything else,it holds the mail and mail is everything.Resupply would come in about every 4 days(weather permitting)Food and ammo and clothes if space allowed.New guys came in and old timers left,it was the freedom bird to us,the bird that come and got you and took you to the rear and never brought you back.If you were not an old timer or had a large serious wound or were zipped up in a body bag the closest you were going to get to it was when you are unloading it.
The choppers were from the 127th Aviation Brigade"The Rattlers" based at Firebase Hawk Hill(I believe that they have a web site)
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