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| A U.S. Army crew chief observes the horizon from the side door of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter as they prepare to land on a helipad at Camp Stehenson, Guyana, during a training event in support of Exercise Fused Response 2012 on March 8, 2012. DoD photo by Sgt. Taresha Neal Joiner, U.S. Army. (Released) |
The caption to this picture is garbage!
That's a UH-60?.
Yeah...on steroids...that's a MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator. Stats via Wikipedia...
- MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator (DAP): US Army variant. Special operations modification of the baseline MH-60L, operated by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.[81] The DAP is equipped with ESSS or ETS stub wings, each capable of carrying a M230 Chain Gun 30 mm automatic cannon, rocket pods, and various other armaments. M134D miniguns are used as door guns.[75]
After thinking this through I'm a bit miffed. Why is Special Forces doing a training mission in S. America? Convetional forces could easily do it and I thought that they were screaming that they need more man power????
SOCOM complains about not having enough assets in theater but then sends the 160th on a training detail to S. America instead of supporting the war effort????
This makes no sense.
