NEWS OF THE FORCE from Yahoo
Friday, November 12, 2004

BLACK HAWK DOWN
A U.S. Army helicopter was shot down Friday north of Baghdad, and its three crew members were wounded, the U.S military said.
The UH-60 Black Hawk was hit by anti-aircraft fire in Taji, 12 miles north of the capital, the military said. Three of the four crew members were injured in the attack, but are expected to recover, the U.S. military said. The crew was rescued and the helicopter was recovered.
This was the third time a U.S. helicopter was shot down in a week.
On Thursday, two U.S. Marine helicopters were downed by rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire in separate incidents near Fallujah.
The crews of the two-man Super Cobra helicopters were forced to make hard landings, the military said. One of the four pilots was slightly injured and other helicopters rescued the crew members from the area, the military said.

In Duckworth’s own words, an account of the incident that resulted in her serious injuries:

Duckworth is one of many military women who have served overseas. Deployed to Iraq where she flew combat missions in a UH-60 Blackhawk, she said that it really came down to one thing—supporting the mission.
“In that cockpit, it didn’t matter if I was male or female, it only mattered that I supported the mission,” said Duckworth. “In that cockpit it didn’t matter if I was from Illinois and the pilot in command was from Missouri. Or if he was a first Gulf War veteran and had been in 20 years and I had only been in 15. It was about the mission.”
And on Nov. 12, 2004, while supporting the mission, Duckworth and her Blackhawk crew were brought down by enemy fire.
“That day in my aircraft, bleeding, knowing that I was dying, when people came to rescue me at no time did I check (whether) they were male or female before allowing them to carry me out,” she said.
But that day, which resulted in her losing the bottom portion of both legs, also brought other points to light.
“The day that I was shot down, I started out as the highest ranking person of my crew. The lowest ranking person in that aircraft was Spc. Kurt Hanneman,” she said, adding that many may say that as the lowest ranking he was the least important on the aircraft.
“He wasn’t the crew chief, he wasn’t in charge of that aircraft (and) he wasn’t the pilot in command. At the end of that day, Kurt Hanneman was the most important person in our crew, she said. “At the end of that day after we had been shot down and Kurt had taken AK-47 rounds into his back, it was Kurt who grabbed his weapon and maintained rear security to make sure the rescue could happen. Bleeding, going into shock (and) scared out of his mind he was not going to quit his post,” she said.
And there were others in her unit that were equally as dedicated, to include another female pilot, who stayed by Duckworth’s side.
The day I was shot down she volunteered to accompany me to Landstuhl (Regional Medical Center),” said Duckworth. “And you have to understand what it’s like to one minute be flying missions and to know that a buddy has been hit and may be dying, and then to volunteer to accompany that person. And, she went to Landstuhl solely to sit next to my bed in case I woke up so that I would see a friendly face.”

Ingraham, if you loose both legs in a vehicle crash, will you ever talk about your “accident”?

@Alan Gin, the FoxGOPTV pukes tried to downplay Max Cleland’s injuries too. I remember that pig mAnnie colter claimed that Clelland was playing with a grenade when it detonated and that’s how he lost 3 of his limbs. The neocons are pigs who have no respect for our troops. They only use them.

@truman – “Only in the perverted, upside-down world of Screech Ingraham and Fux Noise would Teabagger Joe be the victim and Lt Col Duckworth be at fault for being oversensitive.”

Perverted, upside-down is right. I remember seeing Walsh on FOX (Lou Dobbs FBN show?) as some kind of GOP expert on paying down the national debt. Ha! What a joke! A deadbeat dad who won’t even pay his own personal obligations to his children gets to talk to the rest of us about paying debts. Unbelievable.

I’m all 4 smaller government, lets beigin by getting rid of all these Teaparty crackpots. I really do hope this guy loses not just him but so many of these phonies who hide behind the constitution and @ every turn try destroy it.

Since when is being hit by an RPG an “accident”? That’s what Ingraham called it, although she did add “in combat.” It seems like she is downplaying Duckworth’s heroism by labeling what happened as such. It could even lead some Fox viewers to believe that Duckworth was responsible for the “accident.”

First off I’d say that having to have Fux Noise help you try to rehabilitate your reputation is pretty much an admission that reputation is shot and gone to hell and you’ve really stepped in it and gotten it all over you. Plus if there’s a whiner it’s Ingraham.None of this is going to help pigboy Walsh in the slightest.He’s gone and he knows it.

Walsh is a coward who depends on the safety net of the standard News Corp softball interview so that he can assume the role of the poor maligned victim.

He and his tea party brown-nosing cohort are political lightweights who feel that members of the news media should act as though they are working for their public relations departments, only asking them the questions that they want to be asked.

Walsh is a pig.
That is all.

I remember how Fox News reported over and over again about John McCains military service and he was a war hero being a POW. Even in Sean Hannitys eyes that gave him an excuse to cheat on his first wife. Whenever it’s a democrat who served our country they mock it, saying that Kerry got a purple heart for getting a scratch, or that Gore never saw any type of action.

So Joe admits that when somebody tapes what he says he comes off looking like a callous idiot. And exactly WHO’s fault is that? Must be those Liberal, self editing, SD memory cards distorting and changing the context of his statements.

Shorter Deadbeat teabagger joe: “Whaaaaaaaaaaa! squeal snort! How dare those e-vile libruls replay the filth I spewed out of my sewerhole! My fat ass is all hurty now! squeal oink snort!”

Poor Joe……his political career is fading, just as his career as an actor faded.
What a disgusting piece of hair gel this creep is!

The fact is that Teabagger Joe was callously disrespectful of LtCol Duckworth’s military service and sacrifice. He further compounded his disrespect by refusing to apologize. Only in the perverted, upside-down world of Screech Ingraham and Fux Noise would Teabagger Joe be the victim and Lt Col Duckworth be at fault for being oversensitive.

Recently Fox News Megyn Kelly hosted a program with wounded vets and she raised $200K. Good for her. See: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/megyn-kelly-report-on-wounded-veterans-spurs-nearly-200k-charitable-donations/

Then as a boneheaded follow up, Fox is trying to rehab a deadbeat dad/veteran hater. The irony of it all.

It,s not. That you were talking Joe,that made people angry. It’s the fact you dog talked a veteran who obviously sacrificed more for her country than you ever have.