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Hi,
I was with 3 Scots (Black Watch), Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2009 doing heli ops out of Kandahar and Bastion and on one job into Sangin we took quite a bit of incoming from dushkas which damaged the RCAF chinook we were in. There was a hard landing but it managed to get back into the air after 5-10 minutes, which was pretty nerve wracking, and later we were told by some Canadian ground crew guys at the air head that it'd taken about 30-40 rounds and was pretty badly damaged, the chinook behind us was also quite a few rounds. I think this was at the end of May.
I was just wondering if anyone knew of the incident i'm talking about, what the actual damage was (I'm aware that it proably got worse with each re-telling) and if there were any pictures of the damage kicking about.
I was with 3 Scots (Black Watch), Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2009 doing heli ops out of Kandahar and Bastion and on one job into Sangin we took quite a bit of incoming from dushkas which damaged the RCAF chinook we were in. There was a hard landing but it managed to get back into the air after 5-10 minutes, which was pretty nerve wracking, and later we were told by some Canadian ground crew guys at the air head that it'd taken about 30-40 rounds and was pretty badly damaged, the chinook behind us was also quite a few rounds. I think this was at the end of May.
I was just wondering if anyone knew of the incident i'm talking about, what the actual damage was (I'm aware that it proably got worse with each re-telling) and if there were any pictures of the damage kicking about.