Over the radio he said, "When did the rescue chopper depart?"

He was still breathing, but even that effort ceased before the rescue chopper appeared from the north.

It was for this reason that the people who flew the rescue choppers treated their crewmen with considerable respect.

I bet I'll be able to walk to the rescue choppers when they come.

Maybe they're hurt, he thought, while praying that the rescue chopper would get here before the Iraqis did.

Kevin Dalton saw the rescue chopper coming back around just as two A-10s flew overhead.

"I've got rescue choppers inbound to get you there, well inside Vietnam."

From the time the rescue choppers get off, we'll have them in California in... four and a half days.

It would take time for the rescue chopper to reach him, but at least he was in contact with friendly forces.

Get the rescue chopper up here at once.