Prayers for all those impacted by the news. Buddy reached out to me that's taking this crash pretty hard because his friend was onboard.

Even more tragic, today is the anniversary of our two friends dying in a Blackhawk crash in Egypt on
11-12-20. MFO400R.

Just a rough era for the platform and friends right now.

Blue Skies and Tailwinds.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/12/1212558529/us-army-helicopter-crash-mediterranean

Been a day for sure.

But man we shared some great memories.

Army Aviation is a small world. Dallas was one of my Hawk maintainers before he was a pilot and I served with him later. Such a good dude. Prayers out to the Nightstalkers and the families.

Every time I read something like this, I'm heartbroken. And haunted. and maybe feeling some "survivors guilt"

Everyone here sounds a lot younger than me. This notion of "routine In Flight Refueling Operation"?

Nothing "routine" about it. Over 40 years ago, off the USS Nimitz, I was tanking off an A-6. Everything "routine". Nice closure to the basket...and then, the reel looked strange, sine-waved back at me, sheared off my IFR probe, shattered my windshield. I lost all situational awareness, almost hit the A-6. We both got back to "normal" and the A-6 promptly declares an Emergency. They had a Hydraulic Failure which explained the "sine wave" of the reel. Hey...Can't blame me. Had alot of crazy **** happen in my carrier days, but this one gives me more "routine" nightmares than any other.

Just heartbroken for those guys, their loved ones, and all of you, their Aggie comrades.

Here.

Yea that was my last conversation with him - working there for a year before going to Green Platoon.

Turns out one of these crew chiefs was in the battalion I commanded. I didn't know him well, as we were deployed in different areas, but his old company mourns

CW3 Dwyer was a West Point grad who reverted to Warrant in order to stay in the 160th. If you want to talk about dedication this would be a good start.
https://dothaneagle.com/news/local/government-politics/ehs-grad-stephen-dwyer-killed-army-helicopter-crash/article_c4b90aea-8251-11ee-adb6-bf0ef7a8a2c2.html

If you're interested, there is a T-Shirt fundraiser where profits go straight to the families.

https://brotallion.com/collections/ghostriders-10-nov-2023

OldArmyCT said:

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CW3 Dwyer was a West Point grad who reverted to Warrant in order to stay in the 160th. If you want to talk about dedication this would be a good start.
https://dothaneagle.com/news/local/government-politics/ehs-grad-stephen-dwyer-killed-army-helicopter-crash/article_c4b90aea-8251-11ee-adb6-bf0ef7a8a2c2.html

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OACT, my son, Class of '97, is with 5th SFG, and those loses hit the whole community hard. His b-in-l who is a C/O '99 I think, refused many overtures to go to OCS because he wanted to continue flying. He's now a W5 with 101st, but he knew and was close to those guys who perished. Dark days.