January 25th, 2008 | Comments Off
Distinguished Flying Cross
KSHB-TV
On June 2, 2007, Hammon left Baghdad en route to Balad Air Force base 42 miles north of Iraq’s capital. He had four crew members and six soldiers on board as the helicopter flew through the night sky.
With night vision goggles on, they crossed a palm grove on the Tigris River. Everything was going smoothly.
From below, tracers zipped by from all directions. Bullets from three different gun systems on the ground tore through the Black Hawk’s Achilles heel – its tail.
Without a tail rotor, steering rumbled. They were going down.
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