It's been awhile since I heard that phrase. I used to be an instructor there. It seems like it was about a thousand years ago. Couldn't have been though...I'm only 34. I taught IERW for OH-58's...both Charley's and Deltas. Mostly Systems and Emergency Procedures. I tried to teach those guys the best way to deal with what were referred to at the time as ..ahem... "SIGNIFICANT EMOTIONAL EVENTS". I guess the actual term would be getting the living S&*T scared out of you. Nothing gets the old adrenal glands a workout like clipping along at about 100 knots NOE and having the
"Engine Out" light shining in your face. One of my favorite things to tell students was that if you absolutely KNEW that you were going down, and that nothing that you could do would help, then the only thing you could do was to throw your helmet into the back-seat, turn around backwards, and sit on the cyclic stick. It won't really help you any...but it will sure as hell make the crash investigation team work for their money ;-)

Later,
Tom Stone

PS...I have a younger cousin that just graduated from Ft. Rucker and is now assigned to DC patrolling in a AH-64 Apache. I taught him everything he knows... ;-)