Medevac crew receives valor awards following harrowing rescue mission
By CHAD GARLAND | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 11, 2019
Under fire and carrying a badly wounded patient, the Black Hawk helicopter was just lifting off an Afghan battlefield when the crew chief saw an Army Ranger in the landing zone get shot and drop to the ground.
The Black Hawk darted back to evacuate the fallen Ranger.
Spc. Emmanuel Bynum, thinking quickly, directed the pilot to make an emergency landing on a dusty patch masked from most enemy fire. They still took fire — in all, about two dozen rounds to the helicopter, which would become nearly unflyable.
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