MEDIC RESCUED MORE THAN A DOZEN SOLDIERS DURING DEADLY 60 HOUR MISSION

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When Army Sgt. Julia Bringloe received the Distinguished Flying Cross during a Manhattan ceremony last week it wasn’t for any one particular thing that she had done.

 

Bringloe, 39, received the honor for dozens of courageous acts performed during a 60-hour mission where she and her medevac crew rescued 14 wounded soldiers.

 

Erik German from The Daily talked to Bringloe and her helicopter crew about Operation Hammerdown and the nearly three days they spent flying into, hovering above, and dropping in, to extreme danger and live combat.

 

Operation Hammerdown launched as an effort to wipe out insurgent training camps near the Pech River Valley in Afghanistan. It turned into one big, long firefight that absorbed all the lifesaving resources the Army could provide.

 

Almost immediately U.S. troops began suffering casualties and Bringloe’s UH-60 Black Hawk was called in to rescue downed troops. With her crew’s sister ship taken out of action early, Bringloe and three person crew became the only medevac chopper in the area — responsible for rescuing every badly wounded soldier — and there were a lot of them.

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She was one of four who were honored. See Army Times. Can't link here

 

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http://woundedtimes.blogspot.com/2012/04/black-hawk-crew-honored-for-3-heroic.html