82nd Combat Aviation Brigade consists of a lot more than just Apaches. Lots of Chinooks and Blackhawks, including a whole company of medevac Blackhawks with rescue hosts.

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Bullets of most any caliber and construction will easily penetrate a hydraulic line at that distance.

It was only 150 yards. It's not a great feat to hit targets at that range without magnified optics.

Grammar. Couldn't resist.

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Thank you. He didn't give us any details about it, nor should he. I just got a message from him saying "hey, I'm alive" then saw the news Sunday morning. Needless to say me and his mom freaked out anyway, but I'm glad he let us know before we saw it on the news.

I heard somwhere yesterday that it hit the barracks, which makes sense given the number of injuries, but who knows.

Why do you say they were in Syria? My son is deployed at Tower 22 in Jordan and messaged me 12 hours before it hit the news.

Tower 22 is in Jordan. My son is deployed there and sent me a message letting me know he was alive 12 hours before the attack was in the news.

Russia is a permanent member of the security council by charter. They were not put on the council like other countries are.