Sometimes you just got to grin and bear it....like hoisting wounded...dropping repellers....or lifting downed aircraft.
But most times....Same has figured out the right answer....where the Torque Gauge becomes the amount of droop in your Rotor System and not what shows on the instrument panel!
No matter how Vietnam War Helicopter pilots like to embellish on occasions....one thing is for sure...when you are getting shot at AND taking hits....there is nothing "Normal" about that operation and red lines become something to talk about after the fact.
Usually it happens so fast, despite time coming to a pace about equal to a Molasses spill on a very cold February morning in the Arctic....you really only to get deal with the aftermath.
Watching Tracers...really large tracer bullets come up and whiz by is an interesting thing to contemplate both during and after it happens.
I do not condone that and suggest watching Hollywood films is as close as you really want to come in experiencing that.
Beer gains a new level of appreciation in the bar at night when you see them (the tracers) first hand.