Don't Shoot At The Skinny Helicopters, Either
By Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose"
O'Brien
A dispatch from the US Central Command (the four-star military
command that is in charge of US Operations in the Middle East)
informs us that hostile forces in Iraq are unfamiliar with the two
cliches that make up the title and subtitle of this story -- the
title, "Never Return To The Scene Of The Crime," is a hoary old bit
of advice from detective stories, and TV shows in the same genre.
And "Don't Shoot At The Skinny Helicopters," a bit of legendary
North Vietnamese Army advice to newbies, actually was found on an
instructional sign in an NVA training camp.