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by DAVID AXE
With roads made inaccessible by IEDs, helicopters are vital to U.S. efforts to defeat the Taliban in Wardak province, Afghanistan. Jason Reich collected this montage of chopper porn while embedded in the province in August.
(Video: Jason Reich)
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you should definitely set the whole thing to late 70s soft rock
I hate you so much Jason Reich. You know that I always wanted to go up in a helicopter. I’ll be up late looking at this one again.