WanderingAus' Wandering Chopper Lesley, Western Australia, Australia
By WanderingAus on 01-Dec-12. Waypoint GA5082

WanderingAus' Wandering Chopper is an entrant in the 'Bingo' moving cache race for 2012/2013.
 
WanderingAus' first flight in a helicopter, an Iriquois UHIH 'Huey', was in 1969, as part of familiarisation training with the Seventh Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, prior to deployment to South Vietnam in February 1970.

The Iriquois UHIH 'Huey' was the workhorse of the Vietnam conflict, with the multiple roles of troop insertion and extraction, ammunition and stores re-supply, medical evacuation (DUSTOFF), and fire support. The modified Iriquois helicopter gunship, the Bushranger, armed with rockets and a 7.62mm minigun (multi-barreled 'Gatling Gun'), was a formidable ally when things got 'heavy'.

The Hueys of 9 Squadron RAAF and those of our US allies were one of four methods of insertion for infantry soldiers in South Vietnam, the others being M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) operated by the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, RAAC; 5 Ton International Mk 5 cargo trucks operated by 85 Transport Troop RAASC (became RACT in 1973) - the ‘Road Runners’; and the safest, but most arduous method, 'Shanks Pony'.

Choppers are great, but as an infantryman, on either side of a conflict, the chopper, the APC and the truck all fall into the category 'Target', and the chopper is the most dangerous to be in if 'target is acquired'. 

If you can abide by the rules below please help to keep my chopper moving in the race.
•Caches must be found and hidden by the same cacher (i.e. no mailing the cache to another cacher to hide)
•Only moves count towards your bingo card and you must move the cache at least 1km to count as a valid move
•There is no limit to the distance cachers can move the cache
•Cachers in the game are requested to move it on within 2 days

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