Lost U.S. Army Choppers Land on Polish Farm, Ask for Directions

People in the small Polish village of Gruta got a surprise visit from the U.S. Army yesterday, when six American helicopters got lost in a thick fog while flying back from Lithuania and were forced to land in a nearby rapeseed field to ask for directions.

Locals told Bloomberg that they were stunned to see military aircraft land in their fields in the middle of the night, but provided them with English pamphlets and sent the grateful airment on their way. “Now, when I think about it we could have served them some food, but we were in shock and the boys had to go,” Halina Kowalkowska, the village’s head, said in an interview.

Though it’s probably the biggest thing to happen to the village, which boasts a population of 1,600 people, they had every right to be worried, due to the fact that their village is somewhat close to Poland’s border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. In response to escalating Russian aggression in Ukraine, NATO has increased its military presence in the region, and the airmen themselves were returning to a nearby base from military exercises in Lithuania.

“We know that security is the most important thing right now,” Kowalkowska said. “But thank God it was the Americans.”

[Bloomberg]
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