Helicopter naming (U.S.)

[Anonymous]

Here’s irony for you. We name Army Helicopters after people we defeat, in honor of them.

QUOTE: When I did a search about Black Hawk
By late April 1832, American regulars and Illinois militiamen began chasing the Indians up the Rock River valley into southern Wisconsin and then west toward the Mississippi. They overtook the exhausted band at the mouth of the Bad Axe River, slaughtering many of them. This crushing defeat persuaded other midwestern tribes to accept removal to the West and ended Black Hawk’s public career. After being imprisoned in Virginia for some months, he was sent back to his tribe in disgrace. He died in 1838.

[oldhooker]

Thankfully, the ones who named Army Helicopters, weren’t the ones who desimated the Indians, but paid a recompense to them by assigning their names to our present day winged warriors.

I agree with you completely, however. Personally, I wish the Indians wouldn’t have to be the most obscure Race in America! I think they deserve a WHOLE LOT more and a WHOLE LOT better than poverty striken, government regulated reservations in today’s America!

Here’s to the Indians!
Frank

[Anonymous]

I think we should consider ourselves lucky. Other countries have fought over land with modern weapons.
The world’s a lot smaller now. I can’t imagine what happend a couple of centuries ago happening now.

Anyway, that’s off topic. I got the answer I was looking for. I just have to keep remembering the oxymoron: Army Intelligence. [:)]