Sentence examples for command helicopter from inspiring English sources

The General, a fitness compulsive who excels at pushups, has given much time to hosting congressional delegations and providing journalists with interviews, which he often conducts amid the stirring atmospherics of his airborne command helicopter.

1963 Korean Reds Down U.N. Helicopter PANMUNJOM, Korea — Communist troops were disclosed today [May 17] to have fired on a United Nations command helicopter that made a forced landing in Communist North Korea with two United States Army captains aboard.

The modern command helicopter is an OH-58 Kiowa, which can carry Stinger or even Hellfire missiles, and is equipped with a television camera, thermal sensor and laser designator to pinpoint targets.

In July, Senator Barack Obama went to Iraq and saw the General; he was rewarded, courtesy of Petraeus's energetic press aides, with an iconic photograph, printed in many dozens of newspapers, which showed the Senator aboard a command helicopter, smiling confidently at the General's side.

Likewise, during the initial contact A Company had been unable to call in artillery, and the need for a dedicated command and control helicopter to co-ordinate indirect fire during an airmobile assault was also evident.

Each Marine Expeditionary Unit includes 600 to 800 infantrymen and typically travels with transport helicopters, command and control helicopters, helicopter gunships and jets capable of takeoffs on short runways and vertical landings.

Today it is a small, self-contained city with wooden barracks and command centers, helicopter maintenance buildings, a water-treatment plant, a movie theater, gymnasiums and a hospital.

After all, who would want to live in a country where a politician can't command state helicopters and police for what are essentially political fund-raising junkets?

Secretary Kerry looks over the shoulder of the pilot commanding the helicopter that flew him to Embassy Baghdad.

At this time, the 24th Division's ranks swelled to over 25,000 troops in 34 battalions, commanding 94 helicopters, 241 M1 Abrams tanks, 221 M2 Bradley Armored fighting vehicles, and over 7,800 other vehicles.

"I was in command of a helicopter heading out over New York City.