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The Army is saying goodbye to the UH-1H Iroquois better known as the Huey. The Iroquois joined the RAAF in 1962 with No.9 Squadron who were deployed to Vietnam while No.5 Squadron was deployed to Malaya.

AWM Collections ID P04546.005.
9 Sqn RAAF Huey in Phuoc Tuy Province.
Photo by Max Thomas.

The Huey gunships were named "Bushrangers" while an RAN flight of Hueys deployed to Vietnam were called EMUs as in Experimental Military Unit. By the late 1980s all rotating wing aircraft were consolidated under Army command and control rather than all aviation assets being under the RAAF. Since then the Hueys have been with the Australian Army.