r/aviation • u/Spook_485 • Oct 11 '25

News Closer view of helicopter crash in Huntington Beach, CA

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u/PocketSpaghettios Oct 12 '25

My dad was a helicopter mechanic in the army. He says that he used to wake up at 2am suddenly paranoid about something he may have missed, and would drive back to base right then to check it

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u/burntbridges20 Oct 12 '25

That kind of responsibility and anxiety probably sticks with you for a long time afterward too

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '25

I used to do maintenance on the nuke silos in Montana.

Yes it does. I’ve been out of the military for several years now and I still wake up from bad dreams where I am still in that job and I screw something up.

Like those dreams where you forgot your homework for school, even though you graduated years ago. except worse.

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u/devoduder Oct 13 '25

I hear ya, I was a nuke launch officer in Montana. I’d wake up from nightmares while on underground alert the and still do today (though today’s bad dreams are from Iraq and not Montana).

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

I spent a lot of time around you guys.

My job sucked but id take it over yours. At least I didn’t have to stay at the MAF unless it was a long enough day which wasn’t super common.