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Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded
"Two Navy helicopter pilots and their crews returned from New Orleans on Aug. 30 expecting to be greeted as lifesavers after ferrying more than 100 hurricane victims to safety.
Instead, their superiors chided the pilots....
...their assignment that day had been to deliver food and water....
He noticed that there were few rescue units around the flooded city of New Orleans, on the ground or in the air....
Seeing people on the roofs of houses waving to him, Lieutenant Udkow headed in their direction. Hovering over power lines, his crew dropped a basket to pick up two residents at a time....
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Shand landed his helicopter on the roof of an apartment building, where more than a dozen people were marooned.....
Returning to pick up the rest, the crew learned that two blind residents had not been able to climb up through the attic to the roof and were still in the building. Two crew members entered the darkened building to find the men, and led them to the roof and into the helicopter...."
Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded
The article also says that the members of this unit are trained to search and rescue but that this had not been their mission at the time. Some members of the unit have stopped wearing their badge that says, "So Others May Live" in protest of the reprimand.
Deborah
"Two Navy helicopter pilots and their crews returned from New Orleans on Aug. 30 expecting to be greeted as lifesavers after ferrying more than 100 hurricane victims to safety.
Instead, their superiors chided the pilots....
...their assignment that day had been to deliver food and water....
He noticed that there were few rescue units around the flooded city of New Orleans, on the ground or in the air....
Seeing people on the roofs of houses waving to him, Lieutenant Udkow headed in their direction. Hovering over power lines, his crew dropped a basket to pick up two residents at a time....
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Shand landed his helicopter on the roof of an apartment building, where more than a dozen people were marooned.....
Returning to pick up the rest, the crew learned that two blind residents had not been able to climb up through the attic to the roof and were still in the building. Two crew members entered the darkened building to find the men, and led them to the roof and into the helicopter...."
Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded
The article also says that the members of this unit are trained to search and rescue but that this had not been their mission at the time. Some members of the unit have stopped wearing their badge that says, "So Others May Live" in protest of the reprimand.
Deborah
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