Warriors and Heroes: Past and Present

-Louis DeFrancesco

ate last summer, every channel of news media was reporting 24/7 on the fall of Kabul and the harrowing airlift that followed—a humanitarian crisis in full view of the world. It was a perfect storm of hasty planning, thousands of panicked refugees, and the chaos of a war zone. When you read our feature “Reach” by Jan Tegler, which is the story of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircrew’s dramatic flights during those extremely tense days, you will have a renewed reverence and respect for the bravery, skill, and courage displayed by warriors like Aircraft Commander Major Thomas Sukut and his extraordinary aircrew, who successfully evacuated hundreds fleeing the Taliban’s wrath. We at Flight Journal are proud of all the heroes in uniform who made the evacuation possible and that…

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Flight Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, January - February 2022

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