Native American Helicopter Naming

An Army regulation created in 1969 codified this naming protocol. Name suggestions were to be provided by the Bureau of Indian affairs. Silbey says required naming regulations no longer exist, but certain military naming traditions have continued. For example, the Lakota helicopter was named as recently as 2012 in honor of the Lakota tribe of the Great Sioux Nation in North and South Dakota. That same year, Lakota elders blessed two Lakota choppers at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. this fucking rocks (literal coolest thing ever)

A crudely drawn character wearing a Native American headdress enthusiastically reacts to a collage of military helicopters, while an article explains the Lakota helicopter’s naming tradition. The joke is the exaggerated excitement over the extremely cool-sounding combination of Native American cultural tradition and military aircraft, summed up by “this fucking rocks” and “literal coolest thing ever.” EN: A crudely drawn character wearing a Native American headdress enthusiastically reacts to a collage of military helicopters, while an article explains the Lakota helicopter’s naming tradition. The joke is the exaggerated excitement over the extremely cool-sounding combination of Native American cultural tradition and military aircraft, summed up by “this fucking rocks” and “literal coolest thing ever.”

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