"27 years old: the Chinook from the Malvinas STILL serving in HelmandBy Peter Almond
Last updated at 9:58 PM on 18th July 2009
It is an RAF legend - children scramble around a copy of it at the RAF Museum in Hendon, and Baroness Thatcher has been photographed with it.
But Bravo November, a remarkable Chinook helicopter which first saw service in the Malvinas, is still going strong on the battlefields of Afghanistan.
The 18-year-old soldiers boarding it in Helmand know only from a small brass plaque inside that this helicopter is a nearly decade older than they are - and it's still not ready for retirement.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200604/27-years-old-Chinook-Malvinas-STILL-serving-Helmand."
Parece que ellos no los llaman "nenes", ni "soldaditos" a los uniformados de 18 años...