I recall reading a report on a similar engagement in the desert, north and west of Baghdad. It may have been the same one. Those chopper jockeys are pure amazing, nothing short of supermen because unlike all those other super heroes, these guys can fly. The relief choppers had a story all their own that day, too. Also another F16 had been too long on standby, and running low on fuel had to return to a flat top in the gulf. Artillery of a different sort, from a different source could not be used, I cannot recall the reason, but I think it was similar to the troubles targeting the bad guys for the F16′s. But for the little bird and some aerial acrobatics a different ending would have been written. They are generally a quiet unassuming group of enlisted men that fly those birds, when the sequel to the HBO series gets done, some of the actors will have to be balding, pot bellied middle aged men from the heart of America.

Awesome!