Chapter FiveOne year ago, June 13, 2340 Hours (Yemen Local Time)
Justin was flying right-seat as usual. But a new copilot flew in Danny’s seat—out for an indoctrination run. He was FMQ in the tiny MH-6M Little Bird helicopters. A Little Bird had four seats, but you didn’t want to be one of the folks in the back seat, compared to the fifty-plus troops that his Chinook could carry in addition to her five crew. Weighing in at less than a ton apiece, a Chinook could lift fifteen Little Birds without breaking a sweat. But the company commander wanted every one of their pilots to at least have a feel for the capabilities of each airframe type that SOAR flew. And what Pete Napier ordered, nobody messed with.
So, while the copilot had stretched his flight legs over the nighttime Gulf of Aden, Da
