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Yes, SAS, I do recall the Tactical Instrument Rating, which came after I graduated from flt school. We got 6 hrs of hood time in an H-19, but luckily, I had a great mentor at the Test Board and the opportunity to practice instruments in our three Chinooks, and I think I could have passed a checkride, but that was beyond the flexibility of the Army system.
Good thing I did that too, because a few months later, due to a tactical emergency situation, our company commander at Pleiku had us saddle up and he led the company out into the monsoon, where 15 minutes later, all 22 of us were in the clouds executing that inadvertent IFR procedure. That nobody died I always considered as one of the missing Augustinian " Proofs for the Existence of God ". ( Another one being that the Pope wasn't killed when he took a ride in the Phillippine UH-60 ).
Thanks,
John