Not to diminish your thread, but the last pic of the hawk's in an airrplane is a C-17, not a C-5
To a rotorhead they all look pretty much alike. Big Ugly Fat Fuggers.
To some, maybe, but to me, the C-17 is a luxurious per diem/ cash printing machine that has gotten me laid on 3 continents, taken me from 5 star hotel to 5 star hotel, and even a few nasty sandboxes with little brown people shooting at me.
I went from a UH-60 Crew Chief to a UH-60 pilot, to a C-17 Loadmaster. No chit, I'd take (I actually did) an E job as a C-17 Loadmaster over a CWO job flying the -60. The quality of life difference is quite remarkable.
After 700 hours in the -60 (and TH-67) and 3500 in the C-17, I truly learned to appreciate a flushing toilet and 110V outlets at my chair in the -17.
I'm very glad however that I had the Army RW experience, since it allowed me to appreciate the USAF -17 experience that much more.
