Griffons Get Escort Duty

Canada is to deploy eight Bell CH-146 Griffon utility helicopters to Afghanistan in early 2009 to act as armed escorts for six heavy-lift Boeing CH-47D Chinooks being acquired from the U.S. Army.

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