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flying lesson noun- the reported US and South Vietnamese practice of pushing suspected Viet Cong or captured North Vietnamese soldiers from helicopters to their death US
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 84, 1991
- According to the folklore, there were “Bell Telephone hours,” interrogation sessions in which electric jolts were administered to captured VC sympathizers, which ended in the prisoners taking their first “flying lesson” out of a helicopter. — Carol Burke, Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and The High-and-Tight, p. 110, 2004
- the act of throwing a prisoner or guard off a high tier in a prison cellblock US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 90, 1992
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