Correct, but at that point .50 Cals weren't a dam thing to pull out, whereas now, pretty sure the Ghosthawk has only run into a .50 with me, sure it's run into Titans, but If I'm not wrong in saying, either the Titans, or the choppers are bugged. because Titan's do little in terms of real damage to a ghosthawk, well, at least to any one who can fly it, and as far as I'm aware, everybody who has the ability to pull a Ghosthawk, is a pretty dam good pilot.
Also, If you remember well McDili, we VERY RARELY assaulted rebel, I think with us, we assaulted rebel maybe 4 times in about 4 weeks. of course at this point the wipe happened. Not only that, we patrolled in it not very often at all. generally because we were in it for about 5 minutes, then Boom hostage situation and you had to go deal with that, I enjoyed being in your left gun, generally because I didn't feel that it was being overused either, Choppers were generally the only form of transport then, whereas now, it's rare to see a chopper at prime time. Titans and expensive choppers and insurance have already secured that.
Don't get me wrong I think they're both USEFUL and NECESSARY for the APD, but like I said. I watched some poor poor bastard get lethal hell rained on top of him simply because he trying to evade a ghosthawk unarmed in an offroad. Overuse can be a problem. probably who knows, maybe with the introduction of the 2 new Sergeants, it's more commonplace since they're new and it's the ''Ooooh aaah'' look at my shiny new Ghosthawk effect. Maybe soon that'll wear off.
pretty sure if you're referring to the altercation we had at Pyrgos rebel, you guy's didn't even have a ground unit, so maybe instead of piling everyone into the ghosthawk bring more people via the ground than just the one usual P.O. or Deputy dropped 800 Meters out, I mean, I would've been an easy snipe for anyone that was on the ground.