Saturday, January 10, 2026

What to Do If You're Shot 3X During Maduro Operation? If You're This Chinook Pilot, You Finish Mission

In fact, one helicopter pilot, who was the team leader and one of the planners of the mission, was hit three times. - Bob Hoge
That didn’t stop him, according to multiple reports...
As the damaged helicopter struggled to stay aloft and deliver its troops to their target...
The entire operation was in jeopardy:

...Or would the Chinook plummet into a hostile city and become a deadly echo of the Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 and ignited a fierce battle in which 18 U.S. troops died and 73 were wounded, at the time the deadliest single engagement for American troops since the Vietnam War?...

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