DubDub:

Thanks for the vehicle on which to post this. I ran across the term "blood chit" recently and was considering starting a thread about them.

A blood chit is a piece of fabric or paper that has an American flag on it and a promise in several languages to make a payment to the person who helps the aviator carrying it in any way, primarily used to help "buy" repatriation after being shot down behind enemy lines.

The interesting thing about this is that the first use was by British pilots in Afghanistan during WW I.

TEd the First


TEd