TC.....time for you to quit digging that foxhole you are in!
Please do explain how you reckon the Pilot was a “Grunt”.
I’m beginning to think you need a guide book to tell the difference between that thing you have hidden your head in.....and a foxhole!
You do understand the Navy AND the Marines operate helicopters from ships routinely with Marine Aviators in the Cockpits and have done so from the late 1940’s?
Or is this news to you?
Also...it was a USMC 46...the sea was calm....and the wind was light..
Now as to the “Grunt”. .....run that by us again please.
http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites...-USMC-1999.htm