Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 01, 2010
Transcript:
Woman: Mel! The USO chopper went down! Melissa: What? Woman: No casualties, but we gotta saddle up for a field repair! Melissa: My God... what happened? Woman: Random small arms fire- Rotor unit got clipped! Jeff: Really? There's a bright side? Man: Yup. No one got killed, and you're history.
A long time ago, when I was both young and in the USAF, I was a KC-135A Crew Chief, and that bird was MINE when it was on the ground. The OMS squadron was separated into branches for bombers and tankers.