CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan – Marine Corps aviation assets in Afghanistan bring a huge advantage for Afghan national security forces and NATO troops who are constantly ambushed by an enemy that rarely sticks around to fight.

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CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan – Marine Corps aviation assets in Afghanistan bring a huge advantage for Afghan national security forces and NATO troops who are constantly ambushed by an enemy that rarely sticks around to fight. So, while the insurgents hide behind their surprise tactics, Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 are bringing a little surprise of their own.

It’s called the UH-1Y Huey. Bell Helicopter named it the “Venom.” Marine pilots and crew fondly call it the “Yankee.” But no matter what you call it, the thought of it alone is striking fear in the enemy.

“A lot of times we’ll get a call for troops in contact,” said Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lee, an HMLA-369 crew chief, “and we’ll scramble out of here, get down to the contact point and just the sound of us coming into the overhead is the fight stopper because the Taliban and insurgents realize that they just lost any illusion of fire superiority when we came on station.”

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