Mo. Guard leaves helicopter in field

[unhappycamper]

Mo. Guard leaves helicopter in field
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Oct 18, 2007 6:55:04 EDT

DIXON, Mo — Pulaski County sheriff’s deputies have gotten plenty of reports about unattended vehicles in southern Missouri. But an unattended helicopter?

A sheriff’s deputy found that very thing Friday night, after a Dixon-area man told dispatchers he had seen two helicopters land in a field near his home.

When Deputy Jimmy Bench agreed to go to the scene about 9:40 p.m., he said he was expecting the witnesses to be drunk.

“When I got there, they told me two helicopters were there, one of them had left, so I went out in the field with the reporting party, and the closer I got, I saw it really was a helicopter,” Bench recalled.

The helicopter was locked and bore U.S. Army markings. The deputy called dispatchers and asked them to contact military police.

Fort Leonard Wood personnel told dispatchers they didn’t know anything about a missing helicopter. After calling around some more, dispatchers found out the aircraft belonged to a Missouri National Guard unit near Jefferson City.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/ap_lefthelicopter_071018/

[NYVet]

1. Can you point out where in the article

this has anything to do with veterans pay, benefits, va, etc?

[unhappycamper]

2. "The helicopter was locked and bore U.S. Army markings." n/t