The State - News from April 12, 1987
Marin County ranchers are complaining that low-level Army helicopter training flights are stampeding their animals. Two ranchers said that animals have died and cows have aborted calves because the noisy UH-1 copters speed at 80 m.p.h. five feet off the ground at night. “We’re getting a lot of complaints,” said Maj. Pat Donaghue, commander of the Army Reserve’s 343rd Medical Detachment at Hamilton Air Force Base. About two low-level missions are staged weekly in the west county, training helicopter pilots and crews to use night-vision goggles.
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