FA Journal, September 1st, 2001
"Eagle 3, this is Apache 6. There's nothing but SAMs [surface to air missiles] out here. We can't find the target. We're going 'Winchester' on cannon and 2.75-inch rockets doing self-SEAD [suppression of enemy air defenses] and near Bingo [out] on fuel. I've hit my abort criteria.
"We just lost a helicopter due to enemy ADA [air defense artillery] in addition to the one we lost to friendly fire as we crossed the FLOT [forward line of own troops]. You're coming in very weak and broken at this range. I sure hope you can hear me because we couldn't recover the helicopter crew.
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