Hanging Halfway Out the Door of a Sideways Pave Hawk, No One Had a Better View. Last Weekend’s Aviation Nation Air Show at Nellis AFB outside Las Vegas, Nevada, was a magnificent post-pandemic return ...

Lance Cpl. Chris Eichelberger, a Huey door gunner with a Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, and a native of San Diego, Calif., unloads on a target at the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery ...

Door gunners in Vietnam are often remembered through exaggerated "5 minute" or "two week" lifespan myths. The real numbers are grim enough without embellishment, thousands of helicopter crewmen killed ...

This was an interview with Victor 'Vic' Smith, a Vietnam veteran who served with the RAAF No. 9 Squadron as a huey door gunner. Despite being a dangerous job, vets who served as door gunners have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The door gunner in a UH-1B Huey gunship fires on Vietcong positions during a search-and-destroy mission in the Mekong Delta, ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- Two female Soldiers with Task Force 38, 3rd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, exemplified the "we can do it" motto. Spc. Crisma Albarran and Spc. Jessica Sprung, stationed ...

Join this Huey door gunner as he unloads on targets at Yodaville. Taken on Apr. 3, 2015 the following clip shows a USMC Huey door gunner providing close air support at Yodaville, near MCAS Yuma, ...

PIÑON CANYON MANEUVER SITE -- White smoke from the hot end of a barrel reflected off an aircrew member's helmet visor during an aerial door gunnery range at Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site. The 3rd Assault ...

With convoys in Iraq requiring air cover, the US Army has reintroduced helicopter door gunner training, last performed during the Vietnam War. A virtual door gunner trainer developed by Raydon is in ...

Marine Corps Helicopter Crew Chiefs go through machine gunner close air support training aboard UH-1Y Super Hueys at Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range near Yuma, AZ. Stay connected to your ...

Over a single 12-month tour, Paden logged 1,800 flight hours as a door gunner, crew chief and flight engineer on one of Vietnam's most indispensable and vulnerable aircraft, the CH-47, also known as ...