Bert
The helicopter doing the application had only the pilot on board, the other one had 4 on board, 3 armed with high powered semi-automatic rifles, it's standard procedure and as you probably know it is the way it has been done throughout the country for the last 20 years, sure many have gotten shot at but never had 2 helicopters been shot down at the same time.
Did you say you worked for PGR sometime? Miguel worked for them for a very long time, he was doing interception with NVG's I think? I'm thinking working for PGR, they just bought some nice new equipment.
The war on prostitution? I get a kick of flying over the spot where all the "girls" hang out at night and throwing some "nitesun" on them just to see them run like hell thinking its a police raid! (me being in a ENG ship) Never gotten shot at though.