BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — For sale: One UH-60 Black Hawk, Alpha type. Slightly used. Buyer must pick up item in Afghanistan.

Members of the Army’s 277th Aviation Support Battalion attracted a small crowd and a lot of laughs when they posted a “For Sale” sign on one of several helicopters in their repair hangar Wednesday.

Several troops waiting for transport out of Bagram posed for pictures beside the vehicle and joked about what other colors might be available and what kind of gas bill the military aircraft would run up.

Army Spc. Brad Verzweyvelt, a South Carolina native, said nothing was seriously wrong with the chopper — crews had brought it in for a routine electrical check up and to have a close look at a temperamental back rotor. Officials expected the work to be finished by early afternoon.

The crew posted a sale price of $500, but seemed willing to settle for whatever small amount someone would give them for the state-of-the-art flying machine.

But Verzweyvelt thought they should hold out for more.

“Put a lot more zeroes after that $500,” he said, laughing. “That’s what it really costs.”

Shake, rattle and little elseA minor earthquake in the Kabul area Wednesday morning left troops at Camp Eggers more confused than shaken.

Not everyone on base felt the slight earthquake, which occurred just before 10 a.m. Those who did were left wondering exactly what had happened.

“I thought maybe a plane was flying low or something like that,” said Army 1st Lt. Mindy Woolf, of Combined Forces Afghanistan’s headquarters company. “A co-worker came running in a minute later and asked, ‘Did you feel that too?’”

Spc. Jessica Greenfield, of the Army National Guard’s Indiana-based 219th Area Support Group, said she was in the camp’s schoolhouse when the shaking started. She said the experience left her a little befuddled, but unaffected otherwise.

Afghan media reports said the quake caused no major damage in the region.