DEFENSE Secretary Voltaire Gazmin probably thought taking the media for a ride (no pun intended) on the newly acquired UH-1D Huey helicopters would dispel widespread public skepticism over the Department of National Defense (DND)’s controversial P1.2 billion-chopper deal. Wrong!

If at all, it merely fortified the belief of many Filipinos that something stinks about the Defense department’s “negotiated contract” with US company Rice Aircraft Services, Incorporated (RASI).

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