Huey replacement

I thought the Blackhawk did that.

“In an upset, a Boeing-Leonardo team has won a $2.38 billion contract to manufacture a new batch of helicopters to replace the Air Force’s UH-1N Huey used to guard the service’s nuclear missile silos.

“Bell Helicopter built 10,005 Hueys from 1957 to 1975. Of the 10,005 production Hueys, 9,216 went to the U.S. Army, 127 to the U.S. Marine Corps, 79 to the U.S. Air Force and 42 to the U.S. Navy.  The rest went to other countries.

“Today, There are only 113 B models registered. 9 E models, 12 F models, 10 Training F Models, 1 HH-1K, 8 TH-1L’s, 14 UH-1L, 3 M models, 1 P model, 5 civilian 205’s and 547 UH-1H’s.   There are zero registered for all other makes and models of the military variant hueys, leaving only 723 Military varient Huey models in all registered today.”

https://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=81992

With other soldiers in Aero Rifle Platoon, Air Cav Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry, I spent most of 1966 learning air assault in UH-1D Huey slicks. In 1967, practice became application in South Vietnam, along with more than 60 missions as door gunner on slicks and B-model gunships.

Michael, my oldest, in the late 1990s at Fort Hood, flew in the last Huey at that post. Almost 30 years connecting Michael and me to an old, slow, best-ever helicopter.