the sultan,
You obviously don't know what settling with power is. As described in the texts (such as the one pointed to) the downward motion of the rotor must get close to the velocity of the downwash to enter vortex ring state (also called settling with power). Some pilots confuse running out of power and then settling as a result as being "settling with power". They are wrong, and their mistake could lead some people to believe that true VRS is common as an accident cause. It is not common, it cannot occur at low rates of descent, unless you are in an ancient helicopter with very low disk loading, like an R-4. For a Black Hawk, the VRS boundary descent rate is about 2500 fpm, for a Huey, about 1200 fpm.
The H-60 is used all over Afghanistan, just not where you were, I guess. There are dozens of H-60 types used regularly over there. The incident that made all the press was an overloaded 60M, operated way above its flight manual limits (a genuine combat emergency, not a crew error).
One would have thought that you might be able to differentiate between a news helicopter cruising at 40 or 50 knots and a heavily loaded rescue helicopter in an OGE hover. You don't understand, obviously. Work on it, OK?
It is not too bad to be in a Bell. I've got a thousand hours of combat in one. The reference to a Huey is correct, I've seen enough of them toss their transmissions after a blade strike to know. The older helicopters, Bell included, are not designed to the same tough standards as the more modern ones. I understand that the newer Bell models are quite tough.