collision
We landed our UH-60 in the desert near a large air assault mission that was being formed. 66 hawks heading into Iraq in 1990. I had a single ship mission but wanted to follow along as chalk 7 in a previously formed group of 6 across the border so as not to appear suspicious to the AWAC's boys. We had ESSS wing tanks mounted. I asked my co-pilot to jump out and run over to the nearest group of 60's and ask about tagging along. He was an excitable young fellow and leapt out on his mission with vigor. Since they were all spooling up, we stayed running. After just a few minutes I could see my CP trotting across the desert through my goggles. His were flipped up. I could see the writing on the wall but could do nothing to stop it. I alerted my gunner/crew chief to direct his attention out the left side of the aircraft as we were going to possibly see a good show. Not to disappoint, CP ran full steam and chest high into the front of the ESSS tank. I saw the bottoms of his boots, toes pointing toward the heavens and his goggles flew about six feet into the air. He got up with a big toothy grin, policed up his goggles and away we went. He was in a bit of pain the next day but enjoyed the attention as I replayed the incident to all.
Last edited by grumpytroll; 2nd April 2011 at 22:30.