Tragedy at National

stgislander

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Nope, I read/heard he was the instructor pilot. Also, generally speaking, training time does not count as total hours for aircraft operations when calculating a pilot's total flight time.
Thanks. I'm not real familiar how Army CWO ranks work. I figured a pilot with 1000 flight hours would be a higher rank than CWO2.
 

GregV814

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you guys arent insinuating the Helo pilot, (the yet unnamed B/F pilot) had her "learners permit" and may have made an error are you??? huh? huh?...
 

TPD

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you guys arent insinuating the Helo pilot, (the yet unnamed B/F pilot) had her "learners permit" and may have made an error are you??? huh? huh?...
c'mon man - no one on this forum would never ever insinuate anything! Except for maybe how brilliant you be.
 
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vraiblonde

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For all we know she had a medical issue. It would be nice if they'd simply say what it was so we can all move on. When they cover it up like this people will naturally assume the worst.
 

Ken King

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For all we know she had a medical issue. It would be nice if they'd simply say what it was so we can all move on. When they cover it up like this people will naturally assume the worst.
The family requested her identity not be released, I can understand that. Has her body been recovered yet?
 

vraiblonde

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The family requested her identity not be released, I can understand that.

I've never heard of that before. Typically when something like this happens the family doesn't get to claim anonymity.

I mean, again, it doesn't matter to me what her name is because I don't know her. But it's strange that they're all covering this up when they've never done that before. So now I have to go with this is a trans person who was unqualified to fly a helicopter, in because of DEI, and basically the Biden administration killed all those people.
 

Ken King

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I've never heard of that before. Typically when something like this happens the family doesn't get to claim anonymity.
But apparently it is allowed.

I posted this in another thread as to what the Army says about it -
Once required Next Of Kin (NOK) notifications have been completed, the Army Human Resources Command Public Affairs Office will release the information to the Army's Office of Chief of Public Affairs (OCPA) (703-697-7550). OCPA releases to Office of Secretary of Defense Public Affairs and the media. Although families may request their Soldier's name be withheld, it is a matter of public record and may be released without their permission.
I suspect that once recovered they will probably release the information.
 

Tech

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Thanks. I'm not real familiar how Army CWO ranks work. I figured a pilot with 1000 flight hours would be a higher rank than CWO2.
Read he was navy for awhile till he transferred to the army. The photo of him has him in a sargent uniform.
 

Bann

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I tried to do a FB search for her profile, but didn't see one. There were posts that revealed a few nuggets - like
*Why did her family wipe her social media before releasing her name?" (I don't know if that's true or not, but whatev)

*And, that she was an ex-aide at the Biden Whitehouse, who happened to be the miltary escort for Ralph Lauren when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.



 
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