Helicopters!

Recently, Major Kraus, friend of the Education Center offered to have the Ed Center team over to his side of the base for a tour of the Army helicopters and a movie night in their rec room. It was a fantastic experience. Took a whole bunch of pictures. First we walked around the hangar where the skeletons of helicopters sat waiting to be put back together.

Helicopter skeleton.

Explaining things.

You see, after every so many hours of flight time a helicopter needs to be completely taken apart and put back together.

Looks like this one's got some sort of steam-punk rocket booster on the back.

Nope, it's just the engine uncovered.

Chinook helicopters have a lot of trunk space. Great for families.

From the hangar we went to the vast expanses of helicopter fields. Must've been hundreds of them spaced far apart - so it covered a couple square miles.

Looks like a helicopter version of Russian dolls.

We were there right around sunset, so it made for a good picture.

Ohhhhh.... ahhhh...

That little unicorn horn thingy there? That's in case the chopper flies through a place with wires - to cut them.

Wire cutter up close.

Castro reviews the troops' performance... Acceptable.

Fields and fields of helicopters.

Then we watched the sunset from their second story deck. Sandy sunset.

If anyone was on the edge of their seats waiting to find out what movie we watched afterwards - it was Bad Teacher. Just as funny the second time (I saw it in theaters). I guess working at the Education Center has some advantages - you meet people from every part of the base, because someone from any part of the base is trying to get an education - and in doing so you have some sort of a connection with the whole base.