have been mi-8 all your life, i say conditionally that i am the final exam at the syzyron higher military aviation school. i passed the mi-8, began to serve in the armed forces, and from lieutenant to lieutenant general i flew on the mi-8, i retired from civil aviation, flying on the mi-8, there are probably no such people, i was lucky with this helicopter, it is a unique flying machine an apparatus that will certainly be included in the guinness book of records, and it has been flying since 1961 and is now the best helicopter on the globe, you graduated as a lieutenant, naturally, so it is clear, in a unit... how did you end up in afghanistan? my unit was located in the south of the country, in a mountainous area and , of course, one of the first aviation units that were then attracted by the kgbsr border troops was the southern mountain aviation unit, our commander was once the commander of this unit, where i ended up as a lieutenant. knowing the level of training, features of flights in the mountains, of course, he made the decision to send the first to afghanistan. namely, representatives of our unit