USMC AH-1W and UH-1Y crews who were able to take off during the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion recall providing CAS to the airfield defenders – The Aviation Geek Club
‘Usually, we respond to TICs for other units. However, everyone acted instinctively, got to the aircraft and got the alert aircraft launched despite taking fire on the flightline,’ Lt Col Stephen Lightfoot, commanding officer of HMLA-469. Advertise US and British forces, strongly supported by air power, invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 in response to the …