Originally Posted by rickholio

For all the smack talk about Sea King helicopters, it should be pointed out that the chopper Bush uses, aka Marine One, is a sea king (or, rather, a variant of the same family).

Some people have bugs up their asses about the sea king choppers thinking they're old and useless. The real problem is that funding is slacking and they're not being maintained as well as they should be, particularly the ones in heavy rotation over the unforgiving seas of the north atlantic.

Toss some cash at those choppers and they'll be kings of the roost again. People shouldn't believe everything they hear, particularly if certain political partisans want the phrase "Aging Sea Kings" to be part of the political landscape in a futile attempt to do something, ANYTHING to get their regional shitpot crossburner party some traction outside of Sisterfuckville, Alberta.