Word: blackhawks
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...Rhonda Cornum, her voice laced with gentle sarcasm, calls it the "famous sexual assault." It happened in the back of a truck, somewhere behind Iraqi lines in February 1991. A flight surgeon on a downed Blackhawk, she and Sgt. Troy Dunlap had been taken captive. As they bumped along a desert road in the dark, her Iraqi captor pushed her muddy, bloodied hair out of her face - and kissed her. Pulling a blanket over them, he unzipped her flight suit and started fondling...
...book, She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story, the doctor, soldier, wife and mother - then 38 - wrote about her ordeal with a gung-ho matter-of-factness. As a flight surgeon assigned to the 229th Attack Helicopter Regiment at Fort Rucker, Alabama, she was aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when the aircraft came under fire. Five soldiers on board died. Cornum and two others survived. Pinned under the wreckage, she dug her way out with two broken arms, a broken finger, a gunshot wound, torn knee ligaments, an eye glued...
...Secretary of State received news of the attack on his way to a helicopter pad outside Jerusalem, where he and Israeli defense officials boarded a Blackhawk to fly to Israel's northern command headquarters. Powell's hosts flew him over the site of the bombing, circling it repeatedly; he could see people running through the streets and ambulances taking the wounded from the scene. Once the Blackhawk touched down, eight miles from the Lebanese border, Powell took a call from Sharon and expressed his deep regrets over the attack. That day, after consulting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Powell...
...deception, incompetence or economy with truth. Recently, U.S. officials made classic, self-defeating errors. When the Taliban produced jerky video of a helicopter undercarriage marked "Boeing," the Pentagon dismissed it, citing the Taliban?s "completely outrageous . . . outright lies" and "exaggerations." The next day, it admitted the undercarriage of a Blackhawk helicopter was ripped off flying at low level. At first, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted there was "absolutely no evidence" that the U.S. mistakenly bombed a military hospital in Herat. Turns out he was wrong. Undiscriminating contempt for Taliban assertions inevitably raises questions about his promise that from the Pentagon...
...Blackhawk is not a gunship; it carries in the special forces. But it has plenty of fire power. There may also be Apache helicopters in Uzbekistan. We don't have any confirmation on that, but it would certainly make sense to have them there if you're planning on putting troops in harms...