Originally Posted by
AFPirate
I've heard and read both the SAMA and the C-172...defensive systems? I believe you fly around with an M-4 in the back seat in case you go down in hostile country...which is pretty much anywhere. Pilot training out in the "sticks" though, not near any major cities.
I think the one I got was for the SAMA, and I don't even know what that is. However, the location was Taji, while it is somewhat in the sticks--it is incredibly bad guy land. There is no fixed wing runway there (nothing big enough for us anyway), so rotary only, and we've lost a lot of rotary there. Taji is bad, real bad, even by Iraq standards