Having choppers in Ronnie RAAF was good fun, but they spent 80% of their time supporting the army.
The lads in green got a bit pooey when they rolled out their swags to spend the night in the cool of a Rockhampton bush July, while the RAAFies flew back to town and their comfy motel with hot food and cold beer.
The complaining forced the RAAF pilots, on the next exercise, to be housed in a tent on the airfield, and on future exercises, with the grunts in the field - which led to a serious accident at night killing 8 in Adelaide.
So, the end result is, the RAAF don't need no stinkin' green helicopters full of stinkin' green people.