C'mon, you know that's what they look like from this angle... 
Two CH-47, Chinooks, take off to transport troops on an air assault mission to a village near the Combat Outpost Sayed Abad, Wardak province, Afghanistan, June 15, 2010. Photo by Sean McKenna
I sarw it with my own eyes....both of them.
'Hooks have MUCH better high altitude performance than Blackhawks, and two 'Hooks can deliver a good-sized assault force in one lift. So yes, they are using them to fly into hot LZ's when the LZ's are well up into the mountains, or when they gots to fly over some mountains to get to the LZ.
The '47's in the 'Stan tend to have an M240 or M60 in both the left and right windows just aft of the flight deck, and an M2 or Mk19 in a mount on the ramp. They aren't defenseless.
The bird is a good ride if you don't daydream by staring out the back -- almost upchucked in my Kevlar.
P.s. My kitty looks EXACTLY like Fat Freddy's Cat.
The Frog (later Tree Frog) has been a station mascot for years. Back in the early 70s, they touted Frog as a write-in candiate for Mayor, which generated several thousand votes!
WEBN has pretty much degraded into yet another shock-jock, T&A, pre-adolescent-level FM station, but the Frog still lives.