high up on the list of things I HATE

[lagilman]

The sound (and sight) of a military 'copter flying low overhead. I never wanted to know what a Black Hawk sounded like. I wanted to forget the fact that I knew.


Just sayin'


That is all.

Comments

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I read this post just as the sound of low-flying helicopter came around overhead.

[lagilman]

The Revolution has begun?

/partial joking


I'm used to the sound of civilian 'coptors -- when you live near Metro NYC, you begin to recognize the difference between news 'copters, traffic reporting 'copters, Coastie transport and medevacs pretty quickly.

A Black Hawk sounds like none of those. It makes my blood run cold, and only partially because of the personal memories. I think they designed that beast to sound scary.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

The revolution, sad to say, is probably half-over without anyone noticing.

This sounds like the riot helicopters they flew overhead last fall, with searchlights all over the Fenway. Definitely law enforcement, rather than civilian.

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

Yeah - definitely a distinct sound. I live just down the highway from the Pentagon, the Capitol, etc. etc. I hear the military choppers all the time.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

For 'Nam vets, that can be a prime trigger of PTSD flashbacks.

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

Strange times. What's going on around here? I mean, have a look at this post in newyorkers. Military hardware in Union Square under cover of the night?!?

[qnotku.livejournal.com]

Me too, Chickwriter -- I'm only 4 exits from the Pentagon off I395. Not a good sound.

Teri

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I guess I'm overly desensitized to all things military having grown up on bases as a brat and being active duty myself. But yes, there is a psychological factor which is addressed when building military equipement, bases, and facilities. They are meant to intimidate.
-=Jeff=-

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

When I hear helicopters here my first thought is FIRE!...or maybe lost hikers. I think the most intense sound was last summer when a B-1 bomber flew very low over the valley, probably on it's way to Edwards Air Force Base or 29th Palms. Yikes. I was talking on the phone to someone in NYC and she could hear it over the phone line.

[david-chunn.livejournal.com]

I once saw about 18 Blackhawks fly by my parent's farm on a training mission. Of course, I was also able to witness as a 10 year old one of the Tomahawk cruise missle tests as it flew within a quarter of a mile of our house. It ended up crashing into a swamp about twenty miles away. I still remember the sound and sight of it all. Four or five F16's were trailing it. I was close enough to the flight path that I had to crane my neck back to see it. As a boy of 10, it was damned exciting. Looking back on it, very interesting story but not so comforting. I saw a lot of jets and choppers though, being under both a Navy and an Airforce flight path.

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

As opposed to the psychological factor of building military equipment, bases, and facilities seemingly to just annoy the living hell out of their beleaguered users, Jeff?*grin*

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Yuck.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Now, now. I'm an enlisted man therefore I cannot think using parallel or abstract terms; much less think for myself. LAG asked about one thing and I could only answer that. I/O--that's it.
-=Jeff=- <---yes, beleaguered; nailed that one!

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Jeff, my father was a mustang. Specifically, an underage WW II enlistee who worked his way up to LCDR (destroyer XO) and developed a specialty sideline in mouthing off to admirals. His telling the admiral in a receiving line who inquired as to why he was wearing a wives' tag at an Official Function, "I'm the kept j.g., sir," was only the *beginning* of that sideline.*sigh*

So don't you even TRY and give me that line about enlisted men's thought restrictions, 'cause I KNOW better. And wipe that innocent choirboy-regardless-of-religion-or-lack-thereof look off your face while you're at it.*evil grin*

Beleaguered. Definitely. Been there, worked that, though had no clearance to prove it.*wry grin*

BTW, may I friend you?

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Mouthing off to admirals eh? Haven't had the opportunity but I've shined a few Commodores in my day. You can friend me for sure, but it looks like you already nailed me to a wall :)
-=Jeff=-

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Oh, I so did not nail you to a wall, especially if you've shined a few commodores already. Kwitcherbitchin.*grin*