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GregLaROCHE
05-02-2023, 02:00 AM
I enjoyed watching this video that took place in New Orléans during h early seventies.
I think some other members will like it too.

https://youtu.be/zbGV-vlP-DU
deltaenterprizes
05-02-2023, 08:21 AM
I know one of the snipers that was in the helicopter!
contender1
05-02-2023, 10:11 AM
Outstanding story.
I recall parts of it,, but that was good.
JoeJames
05-02-2023, 10:42 AM
Never heard of the incident, but something else.
GregLaROCHE
05-02-2023, 10:59 PM
I liked the plan of picking up the armed vehicle with the helicopter and putting it on the roof. Too bad it was too heavy.
deltaenterprizes
05-03-2023, 07:07 PM
Never heard of the incident, but something else.

It was in 1977, I was a junior in high school in the New Orleans area!
45workhorse
05-03-2023, 11:09 PM
Thanks for posting this!
akajun
05-04-2023, 11:05 AM
I worked with a guy whose dad was NOPD when this happened. He was supposedly wounded by the shooter from bullet fragments. Stated that if they couldnt have gotten the helicopter from the marines, they were working on getting one from an oilfield company but they couldn't find a pilot willing to fly it.
GregLaROCHE
05-04-2023, 04:22 PM
It wasn’t only being afraid of being shot. The weather was extremely bad. That’s why the Coast Guard wouldn’t fly. The job called for a special pilot. Luckily they found one.
avogunner
05-04-2023, 04:30 PM
Yeah impossible I know, but can you imagine if those Marines mounted an M60 or M2 BMG on that phrog. It would have been over on the first sortie. God bless our Marines!!!
Semper Fi


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BLAHUT
05-04-2023, 07:34 PM
Yeah impossible I know, but can you imagine if those Marines mounted an M60 or M2 BMG on that phrog. It would have been over on the first sortie. God bless our Marines!!!
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Amen; The Marines; Best dam trigger jerkers this world has ever seen, they run to the sound of gunfire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
deltaenterprizes
05-04-2023, 07:54 PM
The sniper was hiding in the elevator block house on top of a pipe that ran up at the top!
He would come out every once in a while and start shooting.
They were waiting for him and filled him full of holes.
He was using a Ruger 44 Carbine!
Tru TV had a 14 page article on this, I don’t know if it’s still available.
GregLaROCHE
05-05-2023, 12:12 PM
I wondered why they didn’t fire a RPG into the blockhouse. Maybe you can’t shoot one from inside a helicopter.