Hero Pilot Dies Protecting Black Ops Team
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Former Air Force F-16 pilot Jason Cooper speaks with David Hookstead about the death of fellow pilot Troy Gilbert.
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It was Nov 27, 2006. They dedicated a morale building in his memory at Balad Air Base, and the citation for his Distinguished Service Cross (with valor) was hanging on the wall. I still have a photo of it.
Regarding "keeping the body", you have to keep in mind that Islamic doctrine requires that a body be buried the same day as the death, so "taking the body" isn't necessarily an attempt to defile the body or keep the family from recovering the body, it's just what they see as the respectful way to handle a corpse.
As to how the body was found, there was no "breaking down the network" or "super secret special forces" that found him. An Iraqi local came forward and gave information about the burial site.
I remember when that happened. I was in Ramadi.
If I'm not mistaken, the unit guys have a plaque erected in their unit area honoring his sacrifice.
No wonder the jackels opened the boarder.
Didn't know that. WTF over!?
Ugh...it sounds like a nanosecond too long of track-shoot-track / target fixation and ran out of recovery altitude or he just drove right through the target. There but for the grace of God go I. Providing CAS to troops in contact (TIC) is personal. You are talking to the good guys, you see them through your NVGs and / or on your targeting pod, and you are committed to terminating the threat. As the situation for the boots on the ground becomes increasingly dire, it becomes easier to push the boundaries...sometimes finding ourselves in a position we can't recover from. RIP brother.
It was. I was in the ground unit that responded and spent the better part of a week scouring the area looking for his body. We knew immediately that he was dead; there was... uh, biological matter on the ejection seat that was highly inconsistent with his surviving the impact.
He flew it into the dirt because of target fixation, IIRC they found the seat separated from the main crash site, which hints he tried at the last second to eject, and the sink rate was too high for the ejection seat motor to overcome, so it impacted before man-seat separation, much less parachute deployment.
We lost one of our soldiers during the search for him to an IED strike on one of our vehicles
@@bronco5334Thanks for taking on and completing the most noble of missions…and dangerous, obviously. Our losses weigh heavily on us, and my condolences for OUR Army brother lost during the recovery effort.
Yes, nailed it. When I speak on these terms, people are aghast ,and look like you have nine eyes. Its real, no paranoia, just observation and experience. Goblins are created by either 'the highest bidder or ideology, thankfully most are the former ! 🙏God bless your channel ! (OIF 2, 04-05 🌴)
What aircraft was that pilot flying?
F-16CG.
US military professionalism had change for the better after the Vietnam War. Back then they did some f@ck up things too, like Rape, cut off ears and shot women and children’s etc…. But, I’m happy to see both countries have become friends. People of Vietnam had forgave Americans for the bad things that had happened.