At the start of one week Walter "Radar" O'Reilly decided he'd count the number of times he said choppers in one seven day span. Not because he loved the word, in fact he hated every part of it, how it seemed to control the moves of him, and everyone else too. On the first day he said it four times, none of the times containing to a surge of casualties in the middle of the night (the hour the enemy acted hardest). There was a tie on the second and third days with a total of six times each, a troop of British soldiers apart of the latter. A miracle took place for the fourth when the only time it passed his lips was with the sentence "He went up to the chopper pad, sir." Than the miracle faded absolutely with the occurrence on day five with sixteen times. Days six and seven, he didn't count, couldn't count because they all bleed into day five, around the clock OR, readying supplies, gathering blood. He was sure 51 was right.