Army Day - Hooah!

Yesterday the Army took me to Ft. Rucker Alabama home of Army Aviation. Everyone who wants to fly pretty much anything in the Army or the other services for that matter, have to spend some time in lower Alabama. (It is a true sacrifice.)

The military liaison offices take Congressional staff out and about every so often so we can see the things for which we are allocating precious federal dollars.

Exhibit A: the Hell Fire Missile ($45,000 a pop). It is actually helpful to see these wigits and gigits (no offense to my military friends) in action. When defense contractors come in and say, the HellFire missile is the best thing ever, it generally is only slightly entertaining and I am usually not convinced. When I am at Ft. Rucker Alabama and an AH-64D Apache Longbow (that's a helicopter for you civilians) flies over my head and fires one of these aforementioned missiles... it creates more of an impact... as it were.

Some things I learned while at Ft. Rucker...

First, CH-47's are AWESOME.

We got to ride around at Ft. Rucker in this bad boy. See the picture below, that is me and the 4th Squad being covert in the wire grass of lower Alabama and entering the hewey. (Just kidding, I think that is Vietnam.)







And Second, if you are ever offered fried chicken in Alabama - EAT IT.

Serioulsy. They gave us fried chicken for lunch in a military cafeteria and it was the best fired chicken I have ever had, and I don't eat meat.

On a similar note, the brown bag lunch for dinner was less impressive including two white bread sandwhiches with ham, kraft cheese and a packet of mayo, a hard boiled egg and pecan sandies.

Note to self, when in the South, eat LOTS of fried chicken for lunch.