On Friday, U.S. Military officers recognized the 9 troopers killed in a helicopter crash when two helicopters collided flying out of Fort Campbell in Kentucky on Wednesday.
All 9 individuals on the Black Hawk helicopters died within the accident, which occurred throughout a routine coaching mission. The troopers had been all assigned to the a hundred and first Fight Aviation Brigade, and their ages ranged from 23 to 36.
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“Now could be the time for grieving and therapeutic,” Maj. Gen. J.P. McGee, the commanding basic of the set up and of the Military’s a hundred and first Airborne Division, stated in an announcement. “The entire division and this group stand behind the households and buddies of our fallen troopers.”
McGee added that the losses will “reverberate by means of our formations for years to return.”
The 9 troopers killed had been recognized as Warrant Officer 1 Jeffery Barnes, 33; Cpl. Emilie Marie Eve Bolanos, 23; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Zachary Esparza, 36; Sgt. Isaac J. Gayo, 27; Workers Sgt. Joshua C. Gore, 25; Warrant Officer 1 Aaron Healy, 32; Workers Sgt. Taylor Mitchell, 30; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rusten Smith, 32; and 23-year-old Sgt. David Solinas Jr.
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Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the a hundred and first Airborne Division deputy commander, stated the groups had been coaching to fly in plane formations with evening imaginative and prescient goggles. 4 helicopters had been concerned within the coaching, however one was refueling on the time, and one other was too far forward of the opposite two to be affected by the crash.
No particular reason for the crash has been recognized. An Military aviation staff from Fort Rucker, Alabama, is main the investigation.
The incident is the deadliest aviation coaching accident since 2015, when 11 service members had been killed in a Black Hawk crash off the coast of Florida.
