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Jolly Green Giant; Jolly Green noun any of several large military helicopters, especially the CH-3C helicopter, used during the Vietnam war for counterinsurgency airlifts US, 1965- 21 Hueys, holding 7–8 people each, are now available to lift us off the rooftops & out to the 3 main pickup points where the Jolly Green Giants can land. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, p. 617, April 1975
- — Ian Padden, U.S. Air Commando, p. 104, 1985
- The typical rescue force was comprised of two HH-53C “Jolly Green Giant” helicopters[.] — Karl Eschmann, Linebacker, p. 49, 1989
- “These Jolly Green boys are breed all by their lonesome.” — Joseph Tuso, Singing the Vietnam Blues, p. 32, 1990
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, 1991
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