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Posted: 11/4/2009 4:25:14 PM EDT

[#1]

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You all are forgetting the best vehicle Rambo drove:

http://www.downspike.com/movies/deathrace/machinegunjoe.jpg

FRANKENSTEIN?

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:25:56 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:

Quoted:
You all are forgetting the best vehicle Rambo drove:

http://www.downspike.com/movies/deathrace/machinegunjoe.jpg

is that tommy guns in the headlights??

The original Death Race 2000

Sly's first major film IIRC

Speed

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:27:36 PM EDT

[#3]

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I worked with a rotorhead crew chief who was enlisted during the 80's and went to some places the US never claimed to go. This person stated that some of the senior crew chiefs were given a very basic version of the aircraft checkout, and during a couple flights with an actual pilot was allowed to take the stick for a minute.

Dude
Everybody gets stick time

Hell I tried to hold a hover for twenty miutes straight, with the HAC laughing his ass off making sure we didn't die.

Hey Sgt. Canfield let me shoot that fifty

Two words sir
Stick Time

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:29:09 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

Quoted:
You all are forgetting the best vehicle Rambo drove:

http://www.downspike.com/movies/deathrace/machinegunjoe.jpg

is that tommy guns in the headlights??

It's either tommy guns or pure awesome.

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:34:37 PM EDT

[#5]

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I knew a couple of pilots that were 11Bravo types prior to becomming pilots, one of them during Vietnam (IIRC his first tour was as a grunt, second tour was as a pilot - he was shot down twice).

So I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility.

That's because prior to circa 1985 there was no separate branch for Army aviators. That's why a lot of Helicopter pilots during the Vietnam War were branched Infantry, Armor, Cavalry, etc.

And to the OP, it is very doubtful that a Special Forces soldier would be able to fly a helicopter during that era. It takes 18 months as it is to get a soldier all the way thru the SF training pipeline let alone adding another year for Army rotary wing aviation training.

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:45:31 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I knew a couple of pilots that were 11Bravo types prior to becomming pilots, one of them during Vietnam (IIRC his first tour was as a grunt, second tour was as a pilot - he was shot down twice).

So I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility.

That's because prior to circa 1985 there was nos separate branch for Army aviators. That's why a lot of Helicopter pilots during the Vietnam War were branched Infantry, Armor, Cavalry, etc.

And to the OP, it is very doubtful that a Special Forces soldier would be able to fly a helicopter during that era. It takes 18 months as it is to get a soldier all the way thru the SF training pipeline let alone adding another year for Army rotary wing aviation training.

They are a few documented cases of SF qualified soldiers who were also pilots in Vietnam. One was actually busted by POW Network for claiming more medals than he actually earned, but was proven to have been in fact both a pilot and a green beret, albeit a year apart on different tours.

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:48:26 PM EDT

[#7]

Every one also forgets Rambo was part of some spook spec ops team.

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:51:33 PM EDT

[#8]

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Are you calling John Rambo a liar?

You mean the character portrayed by an asshole who went to Switzerland rather than actually go to Vietnam and who would take your guns in a heartbeat?

Yeah, the whole thing is a fucking lie.

Posted: 11/4/2009 4:52:21 PM EDT

[#9]

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I'm sitting here wondering why you commies are questioning ANYTHING about Rambo, John J...

He is an American hero!! Someone needs to come here and teach some of you RESPECT!!!!

*Calls Chuck Norris on speed dial*

Is this sarcasm?

Posted: 11/4/2009 5:12:22 PM EDT

[#10]

I know a guy that was both Special Forces and an Army pilot. His SF career was very short, his aviation career was not.

The guy I knew who did both was my father. I was about three when he went to flight school, and all I ever remember him doing in the Army was flying. I was 16 when I found out he had been a Green Beret. Some guy called the House, looking for Rusty (my fathers name), I told him he wasn't home, that he was in the field, and he asked me to take a not that Mr. XXXX had called, they hadn't seen each other since they graduated SF school, and he wanted to catch up. I told the guy that he must be looking for somebody else, my dad was a pilot, not an Infantryman, and he assured me he was looking for the right person, then seemed a little dismayed that I didn't remember him or my dad being a Green Beret.

Posted: 11/4/2009 5:50:04 PM EDT

[#11]

+1000.............I flew with quite a few guys that had the lightning bolt and sword patch on their sleeve with the SF tab on top.

It was also quite common for crew members in aviation units to be taught the basics of rotary wing flight, especially the landing part. There are quite a few cases where the pilots were wounded and or killed and the crew chief having to take the controls to get them back to base. It's true that it takes a long time to master helicopter flight, but the basics can be taught fairly easy with some practice.

Gunships are a little bit more complicated................but when you're from Hollyweird, anything is possible.

Posted: 11/4/2009 5:50:58 PM EDT

[#12]

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"Back here , I can't even hold a job... PARKING CARS... AAAHHHH...!!!!

Beat me to it!

Posted: 11/4/2009 5:57:24 PM EDT

[#13]

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is it possible that a Special Forces soldier could have received some informal flight instruction from a chopper pilot in Vietnam? that could explain how a small arms specialist could fly a gunship?

You do know that was only a movie, right?

Rambo prolly worked in supply at Ft. Dix in reality.

Posted: 11/4/2009 10:42:48 PM EDT

[#14]

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I hate to bring bad news but Rambo was a fucking movie.

Wrong
Wrong again.

Posted: 11/4/2009 11:00:51 PM EDT

[#15]

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my dream is to ride in a helicopter, flying one, i could die the next day happy

Look in the yellow pages for helicopter tours, or call a local private airport and ask.

They usually aren't very expensive.

Posted: 11/4/2009 11:04:46 PM EDT

[#16]

Well, he DID say he'd give the Sheriff a war he wouldn't believe.

Posted: 11/4/2009 11:27:51 PM EDT

[#17]

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He could drive a tank too. He was so good he could run over flying aircraft with it.

And load and fire the main gun, while driving the tank, all by himself! Holy Fuck Rambo was boss!

Posted: 11/4/2009 11:30:18 PM EDT

[#18]

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is it possible that a Special Forces soldier could have received some informal flight instruction from a chopper pilot in Vietnam? that could explain how a small arms specialist could fly a gunship?

No.

It takes a hell of a lot more than 'some informal flight instruction' to handle a helicopter...

Airplane? I could believe...

Helcopter? Not unless he had civvie training before the military....

It's hollywood & fucking RAMBO... He fights with a BOW, and shoots down MI-24s with a tank...

Posted: 11/4/2009 11:30:57 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

+1000.............I flew with quite a few guys that had the lightning bolt and sword patch on their sleeve with the SF tab on top.

It was also quite common for crew members in aviation units to be taught the basics of rotary wing flight, especially the landing part. There are quite a few cases where the pilots were wounded and or killed and the crew chief having to take the controls to get them back to base. It's true that it takes a long time to master helicopter flight, but the basics can be taught fairly easy with some practice.

Gunships are a little bit more complicated................but when you're from Hollyweird, anything is possible.

Very true.

My dad was a crew chief on the UH-1N in the Marines. He told me that the pilots trained him how to fly it just in case one of the pilots die or whatever. My dad also got to fly the AH-1w a few times as a crew chief.

Posted: 11/4/2009 11:34:46 PM EDT

[#20]

I would kill to take a ride in a Pave Low.

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