On December 9, 1999, a Marine Corps Boeing Vertol CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter approached the USS Pecos oiler under favorable weather conditions 14 miles off the coast of San Diego. The breeze was ...
While many are familiar with the U.S. Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor helicopter, the U.S. Marine Corps used a different model, the Boeing Vertol CH-46 "Phrog" Sea Knight, which it began ...