Defiant: Part 1
“Charlie!” I could hear the door gunner scream as he cranked his M-60 machine gun towards the tree line and began a firing a rapid succession of bullets. The pilot had wasted no time on the ammo drop and barely touched ground it seemed then the helicopter began a fast assent up and away from the enemy fire. “Hope you are hard at work attempting to communicate with us on this side? Let me know!” said Dave the radio operator clearly frustrated with his machine. “I don’t know if anyone can hear me, I think the radio might be cooked I can’t seem to get HQ for more than a word or two.” I could see the concern on the captain's face as he looked at the battlefield. He yelled “Broken Arrow” Dave run up behind him and said “Captain, I just briefed you and told you that the radio is down. We don’t have that ability to call that in.” Dave looked worried. The Captain said ‘right, the radio — the radio — okay you get on that chopper that’s coming down now and you use that choppers radio to ca