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“Six hours it took to break down the helicopters far enough to fit into a C-5 Galaxy transport,” John moaned as he finished the last inspection on the reassembled Chinook helicopter now parked in a secure hangar at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
Pete agreed, it was always a long, pain-in-the-ass process to move a big bird like the Chinook across long distances. A couple thousand miles was no real problem, the sixty-five hundred miles from the NTTR to Japan, was a whole different matter. They could do it, in a forty-hour flight with multiple mid-air refuelings over the open ocean…it was easier and safer to take it apart enough to stuff it on an Air Force jet.
The hangar, not as new as the one at Mother Rucker or as dusty and dry as the one at the Nevada Range, was still similar en
